Day-to-day deterioration
The crossword clue "Day-to-day deterioration" is answered by WEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WEAR answer page.
Used 13 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for WEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by WEAR, most used first.
- Have on - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Sport - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Put on - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear's partner - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Be dressed in - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Dress in - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Erode - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ and tear - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Become tiresome - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign of use - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Don - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Last. - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
- Become frayed - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Deterioration - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Grow tiresome - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- Wash-and-___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Become threadbare - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Deteriorate through use - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Fatigue - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
- Sign of age - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Apparel - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- __ away; erode - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "I haven't a thing to ___!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
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- Any day now - SOON, used 101 times
- Bad day for Caesar - IDES, used 89 times
- ___-Day vitamins - ONEA, used 81 times
- Back in the day - ONCE, used 77 times
- Earth Day subj. - ECOL, used 74 times
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