subendo la naturale usura
English translation: being overused / becoming hackneyed
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| Italian to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters / In A Book On Navigational History | |||||||
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|  Selected response from: Wendy Streitparth Germany Local time: 08:23 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | being overused / becoming hackneyed |
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| 3 | becoming trite |
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23 mins confidence: 
becoming trite Explanation: See https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/trite for the definition and etymology of "trite". "worn" would work too. |
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20 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1being overused / becoming hackneyed Explanation: ..the Code may often seem cumbersome, and to use a word which is by now becoming hackneyed, 'hackneyed'. https://books.google.de/books?id=nQave0fv4mMC&pg=PA232&lpg=P... ... the conscientious stylist does not, however, stop when he finds that a word is becoming hackneyed. https://books.google.de/books?id=UOH0QSQYapAC&q="becoming ha... Anger, in and of itself, is a word that carries a great deal of weight, despite being overused. https://books.google.de/books?id=_DQDCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT8&dq="bei... If one reads any of the 20th century works on good usage one always finds a section on vogue words: references to words that, at the time of writing, were much in fashion and being overused; https://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbm=bks&ei=X7tMXIzCJpH6wA... |
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