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wear out

With or without an object

Use something until it is no longer usable

These shoes have worn out already.

Make someone very tired

The long walk wore the children out.

With or without an object

It can be used with no object, and it can also take one. With an object it is usually separable: turn the volume up, turn it up.

The particle: out

This verb belongs to the group ‘running to the end’.

Others in the group: run out, sell out.