desgastar

v.

1 to wear out.

2 to wear down, to fret, to eat away, to rub away.

El roce desgasta el cuero Friction wears down leather.

3 to exhaust, to play out.

El acoso desgasta la mente Harassment exhausts the mind.

4 to tire out, to drain.

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desgastar

► verbo transitivo

1 (ropa) to wear out, wear away; (tacones) to wear down

2 (erosionar) to erode

3 figurado (debilitar) to weaken

► verbo pronominal desgastarse

1 (gastarse) to wear out, get worn

2 figurado (debilitarse) to weaken

3 figurado (persona) to wear oneself out

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verb

to wear out, wear down

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1. VT

1) [+ ropa, zapatos, tejido, moqueta, neumático] to wear out; [+ tacones, suela] to wear down; [+ superficie] to wear away

las olas han desgastado las rocas — the waves have worn away the rocks

la corrupción ha desgastado al gobierno — corruption has weakened the government

2) [+ rival, contrincante] to wear down

2.

VI (=debilitar)

veinte años de poder desgastan — after twenty years in power you get stale o run out of steam

3.

See:

desgastarse

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1.

verbo transitivo

a) (gastar) <suelas/ropa> to wear out; <roca> to wear away, erode

b) (debilitar) to wear ... down

2.

desgastarse v pron

a) (gastarse) ropa to wear out; roca to wear away; tacón to wear down

b) persona to wear oneself out; relación to grow stale

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= wear out, eat away at.

Ex. What we really want is a product that wears out from use over a reasonable amount of time.

Ex. Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.

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* desgastarse = wear off.

* no desgastarse fácilmente = wear + well.

* sin desgastar = unworn.

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1.

verbo transitivo

a) (gastar) <suelas/ropa> to wear out; <roca> to wear away, erode

b) (debilitar) to wear ... down

2.

desgastarse v pron

a) (gastarse) ropa to wear out; roca to wear away; tacón to wear down

b) persona to wear oneself out; relación to grow stale

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= wear out, eat away at.

Ex: What we really want is a product that wears out from use over a reasonable amount of time.

Ex: Rather than catalog departments going out of business, they could turn their attention once again to cataloging special local materials, eating away at store-rooms of uncataloged materials, and making their collections as a whole more responsive to their local constituency.

* desgastarse = wear off.

* no desgastarse fácilmente = wear + well.

* sin desgastar = unworn.

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desgastar [A1 ]

vt

1 (gastar) ‹suelas/ropa› to wear out; ‹roca› to wear away, erode

2 (debilitar) to wear … down

■ desgastarse

v pron

1 (gastarse) «ropa» to wear out; «roca» to wear away; «tacón» to wear down

2 «persona» to wear oneself out; «relación» to grow stale

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desgastar (conjugate desgastar) verbo transitivo

a) (gastar) ‹suelas/ropa› to wear out;

‹roca› to wear away, erode

b) (debilitar) to wear … down

desgastarse verbo pronominal

a) (gastarse) [ropa] to wear out;

[roca] to wear away;
[tacón] to wear down

b) [persona] to wear oneself out;

[relación] to grow stale
desgastar verbo transitivo to wear out
'desgastar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
gastar
English:
eat away
- erode
- wear
- wear away
- weather

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desgastar

♦ vt

1. [suela, neumático] to wear down;

[puño, cuerda] to fray; [roca] to wear away;

han desgastado la tapicería del sofá con sus juegos they've caused a lot of wear on the upholstery of the sofa with their playing on it

2. [persona] to wear out;

[organización] to weaken

♦ See also the pronominal verb desgastarse

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desgastar

v/t

1 zapatos wear out

2 defensas wear down

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desgastar vt

1) : to use up

2) : to wear away, to wear down

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desgastar vb (ropa, zapatos) to wear out [pt. wore; pp. worn]

has desgastado el pantalón por las rodillas you've worn out the knees of your trousers