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Can I say that my: stomach ache has eased off OR worn off?
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eased off means it has become less, but not disappeared. worn off is not usually used for pain. If you'd taken some medicine for it, and the pain had come back, you'd say the medicine had worn off.
The common term is: the pain has gone away.
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eased off means it has become less, but not disappeared. worn off is not usually used for pain. If you'd taken some medicine for it, and the pain had come back, you'd say the medicine had worn off.
The common term is: the pain has gone away.
I see so "worn off" means that the medicine is not working as well as at the beginning, its effects are weaker.
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