Wear Pain Meaning Gradually Loses Effect Medication Started

Meaning: If something wears off, it gradually loses its effect.

• wear off The pain medication started to wear off, so I began to feel the pain again.
  
  
• wear off The excitement of working in a new company soon wore off, and it became just like any other job.
  
  

Nouns often used as subjects with wear off: pills, alcohol, drugs, feeling, excitement, novelty, effect