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wear
[ wair ]
verb (used with object)
- to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like:
to wear a coat;
to wear a saber;
to wear a disguise.
- to have or use on the person habitually:
to wear a wig.
- to bear or have in one's aspect or appearance:
to wear a smile;
to wear an air of triumph.
- to cause (garments, linens, etc.) to deteriorate or change by wear:
Hard use has worn these gloves.
- to impair, deteriorate, or consume gradually by use or any continued process:
Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks.
- to waste or diminish gradually by rubbing, scraping, washing, etc.:
The waves have worn these rocks.
- to make (a hole, channel, way, etc.) by such action.
- to bring about or cause a specified condition in (a person or thing) by use, deterioration, or gradual change:
You'll wear that outfit to rags if you don't take better care of it.
Years of hard labor had worn him to a shadow.
- to weary; fatigue; exhaust:
Toil and care soon wear the spirit.
- to pass (time) gradually or tediously (usually followed by away or out ):
We wore the afternoon away in arguing.
- Nautical. to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning until the wind is on the stern.
- British Dialect. to gather and herd (sheep or cattle) to a pen or pasture.
verb (used without object)
- to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off ).
- to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain:
a strong material that will wear;
colors that wear well.
- (of time) to pass, especially slowly or tediously (often followed by on or away ):
As the day wore on, we had less and less to talk about.
- to have the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate, especially after a relatively long association:
It's hard to get to know him, but he wears well.
- Nautical. (of a vessel) to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
- Obsolete. to be commonly worn; to be in fashion.
noun
- the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
articles for winter wear;
I've had a lot of wear out of this coat.
I had to throw away the shirt after only three wears.
- the state of being worn, as on the person.
- clothing or other articles for wearing; especially when fashionable or appropriate for a particular function (often used in combination):
travel wear;
sportswear.
- gradual impairment, wasting, diminution, etc., as from use:
The carpet shows wear.
- the quality of resisting deterioration with use; durability.
verb phrase
Wear
1/ ·Éɪə /
noun
- a river in NE England, rising in NW Durham and flowing southeast then northeast to the North Sea at Sunderland. Length: 105 km (65 miles)
wear
2/ ·Éɛə /
verb
- tr to carry or have (a garment, etc) on one's person as clothing, ornament, etc
- tr to carry or have on one's person habitually
she wears a lot of red
- tr to have in one's aspect
to wear a smile
- tr to display, show, or fly
a ship wears its colours
- to deteriorate or cause to deteriorate by constant use or action
- to produce or be produced by constant rubbing, scraping, etc
to wear a hole in one's trousers
- to bring or be brought to a specified condition by constant use or action
to wear a tyre to shreds
- intr to submit to constant use or action in a specified way
his suit wears well
- tr to harass or weaken
- whenintr, often foll by on (of time) to pass or be passed slowly
- slang.tr to accept
Larry won't wear that argument
- wear shipto change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
noun
- the act of wearing or state of being worn
- anything designed to be worn
leisure wear
- ( in combination )
nightwear
- deterioration from constant or normal use or action
- the quality of resisting the effects of constant use
wear
3/ ·Éɛə /
verb
- nautical to tack by gybing instead of by going through stays
Derived Forms
- ˈ·É±ð²¹°ù±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ·É±ð²¹°ù·±ð°ù noun
- °ù±ð··É±ð²¹°ù verb rewore reworn rewearing
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of wear1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of wear1
Origin of wear2
Idioms and Phrases
- wear thin,
- to diminish; weaken:
My patience is wearing thin.
- to become less appealing, interesting, tolerable, etc.:
childish antics that soon wore thin.
More idioms and phrases containing wear
- hair shirt, wear a
- if the shoe fits, wear it
- none the worse for (wear)
- worse for wear
Example Sentences
Some of the teenagers at a session in east London said they tried to keep themselves safe by wearing stab vests or multiple layers of clothing, the Mirror newspaper reported.
That man is wearing a Jesse Jackson for President hat, but he’s too intimidated to step in.
She told police her husband's long hours and shifts meant they had been "strangers in the night" and it had not been difficult to hide her growing bump by wearing baggy clothing.
Everyone should wear No. 42 jerseys in honor of Robinson, who famously broke baseball’s color line and also fought segregation in the military.
Halili and Reitsma don't wear aprons or pose with backyard chickens, but their content still belongs to the same social media universe as "tradwife" podcasts and similar propaganda for womanly submission.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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