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wearing

[ wair-ing ]

adjective

  1. gradually impairing or wasting:

    Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.

  2. wearying or exhausting:

    a wearing task.

  3. relating to or made for wear.


wearing

/ ˈ·Éɛə°ùɪŋ /

adjective

  1. causing fatigue or exhaustion; tiring
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ·É±ð²¹°ù¾±²Ô²µ±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ·É±ð²¹°ùi²Ô²µÂ·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ü²Ô··É±ð²¹°ùi²Ô²µ adjective
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of wearing1

First recorded in 1805–15; wear + -ing 2
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Example Sentences

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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.

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That man is wearing a Jesse Jackson for President hat, but he’s too intimidated to step in.

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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.

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So it was something of a branding problem when a video appeared on the internet earlier this year showing Halili on all fours wearing a minidress, while several other scantily-clad women dance around her, giggling.

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As the pregnancy progressed the then 28-year-old managed to hide it from Mr Sharkey and her wider family by wearing baggy clothes and isolating herself over winter, she said.

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