Synonyms of wearing (away)

wearing (away)

verb

present participle of wear (away)

as in washing out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• washing out
• crossing (up)
• eroding
• undermining
• deteriorating
• scouring
• weakening
• gumming (up)
• enervating
• enfeebling
• impairing
• damaging
• compromising
• injuring
• hurting
• blighting
• crippling
• tarnishing
• wiping out
• flawing
• harming
• doing in
• tearing down
• disfiguring
• spoiling
• defacing
• crabbing
• marring
• endamaging
• vitiating
• dinting
• denting
• bloodying
• botching
• breaking
• banging up
• blemishing
• wounding
• lacerating
• disabling
• destroying
• dinging
• tormenting
• mutilating
• torturing
• wasting
• totalling
• devastating
• maiming
• totaling
• wrecking
• mangling
• smashing
• ruining
• shattering
• crushing
• hamstringing
• queering
• battering
• pulverizing
• annihilating
• demolishing
• decimating
• bashing
• dashing
• razing
• scourging
• laming
• desolating
• clobbering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• repairing
• rebuilding
• fixing
• reconstructing
• patching
• renovating
• helping
• reconditioning
• healing
• revamping
• curing
• mending
• remedying
• rehabilitating
• rectifying
• improving
• revising
• remodeling
• editing
• doctoring
• enhancing
• refining
• enriching
• ameliorating
• perfecting
• bettering
• meliorating