wear down

Their steps wear down the grass further, which makes the visual cue stronger and creates a positive feedback loop.

“Can the Yankees throw enough strikes as a staff? And will the Dodgers lineup wear down the Yankees’ pitching as a whole?

The line wore down a bit in the second half, yielding both of its sacks as an offense that once looked lively managed only 106 yards over the final two quarters.

The term has been used to describe the way Moscow sends waves of soldiers forward relentlessly to try to wear down Ukrainian forces and expose their locations to Russian artillery.

Meanwhile, his city only cringed and thought, yeah, we’ve seen these sorts of great bursts from him before, but he wears down without help.