Wear

Verb

 * 1) To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
 * He's wearing some nice pants today.
 * She wore her medals with pride.
 * Please wear your seatbelt.
 * He was wearing his lunch after tripping and falling into the buffet.
 * 1) To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
 * He wears eyeglasses.
 * She wears her hair in braids.
 * 1) To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
 * She wore a smile all day.
 * He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction.
 * 1) To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
 * You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.
 * The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks.
 * Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks.
 * Exile had worn the man to a shadow.
 * 1)  To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
 * The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
 * 1) To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
 * His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.
 * Toil and care soon wear the spirit.
 * Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win.
 * 1)  To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
 * Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years.
 * This color wears so well, I must have washed this sweater a thousand times.
 * I have to say, our friendship has worn pretty well.
 * It's hard to get to know him, but he wears well.
 * 1)  (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
 * Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately.
 * 1)  To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
 * wear on, wear away.
 * As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common.
 * 1)  To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.

Derived terms

 * outworn
 * wear away
 * wear down
 * wear off
 * wear out, worn out, worn-out
 * wear thin
 * wear something on one's sleeve, wear one's heart on one's sleeve
 * wear rose-colored glasses
 * wearable
 * wearer

Noun

 * 1)  (in combination) Clothing (such as footwear).
 * 2)  Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
 * 3)  fashion

Related terms

 * wear and tear

Adjectives for Wear
abundant; minimum; worthy; immediate; superfluous; forcible; fashionable; prolonging; satisfactory.

Adverbs for Wear
habitually; absurdly; customarily; religiously; gracefully; conventionally; invariably; jauntily; loosely; haughtily; superfluously; fashionably.

Thesaurus
abate, abide, ablate, ablation, about ship, abrade, abrase, abrasion, abrasive, act a part, affect, apparel, array, assume, atomization, attire, attrition, back and fill, bark, bate, be dressed in, be eaten away, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, bedizenment, bide, box off, break, breakup, bring about, bring round, buffing, burn out, burnishing, cant, cant round, carry on, cast, cast about, chafe, chafing, change course, change the heading, clothes, clothing, come about, consume, consume away, continue, continue to be, corrode, corrosion, costume, counterfeit, crumble, crumbling, debilitate, decay, decline, decomposition, decrease, defeat time, defy time, degradation, deliquesce, deplete, depreciate, detrition, die away, dilapidation, diminish, disintegration, disjunction, disorganization, dissipate, dissolution, dive, do a bit, do in, do up, double a point, drag on, drain, dramatize, drapery, dress, dressing, dribble away, drop, drop off, duds, dwell, dwindle, ebb, endure, enervate, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, exhaust, exist, extend, fag, fag out, fake, fall, fall away, fall off, fashion, fatigue, fatigues, feathers, feign, fetch about, fig, file, filing, flag, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, gall, galling, garb, garments, gear, glut, gnaw, gnaw away, go about, go on, go on forever, grate, graze, grazing, grind, grinding, guise, gybe, habiliment, habit, harass, have on, heave round, histrionize, hold, hold on, hold out, incoherence, investiture, investment, irk, jade, jibe, jibe all standing, keep, keep on, knock out, knock up, languish, last, last long, last out, lessen, let up, limation, linen, live, live on, live through, maintain, make out like, melt away, miss stays, overact, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pall, perdure, perennate, persist, play, play a part, play a scene, playact, plummet, plunge, ply, polishing, poop, poop out, pretend, prevail, prostrate, put about, put back, put on, put on airs, rags, raiment, rasp, rasping, ravages of time, raze, remain, resolution, robes, round a point, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away, run, run low, run on, sag, sandblasting, sanding, satiate, scour, scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing, scuff, sham, sheer, shift, shining, shrink, simulate, sink, skin, slew, smoothing, sport, sportswear, squander, stand, stay, stay on, style, subside, subsist, survive, sustain, swerve, swing round, swing the stern, tack, tail off, tarry, tatter, threads, throw about, tide over, tire, tire out, tire to death, togs, toilette, trim, turn, turn back, use, use up, veer, vestment, vesture, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear and tear, wear away, wear down, wear off, wear on, wear out, wear ragged, wear ship, wear well, wearing apparel, wearing away, weary, weather, weathering, wilt, wind, yaw

Etymology
werian

Pronunciation

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Verb

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 穿, 戴
 * Croatian: nositi
 * Danish: have på
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hindi: पहनना
 * Ido: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 着る, 掛ける,  履く,  被る


 * Korean: 입다
 * Pashto:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: носить, ,   ,   быть одетым
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kuvaa
 * Swedish:, ha på sig
 * Thai: ใส่, สวมใส่, สวม, ครอง
 * Urdu: پہننا
 * Vietnamese: mặc, đeo,  đi


 * Armenian: մաշվել
 * Ewe: nyi
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German: sich abnutzen
 * Japanese: 擦り切れる
 * Swedish: slitas


 * Finnish:
 * Ido:, tedar
 * Spanish:


 * Swedish: trötta ut
 * West Frisian: skuorre


 * Finnish: jiipata


 * Swedish: vända undan vinden


 * : (lábisa)
 * : porti
 * : hordani
 * : pakai, memakai, mengenakan
 * : 입다 (ipda)

Noun

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * Ido: vestaro
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 服 (fuku), 着物 (kimono)


 * Malay: pakai
 * Polish: ubranie
 * Romanian: îmbrăcăminte, haine
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: klädsel


 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 疲労 (hirō)
 * Romanian: uzură
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:

Anagrams

 * ware