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Definitions for Wear

[1] 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.
[2] to have or use on the person habitually: to wear a wig.
[3] to bear or have in one's aspect or appearance: to wear a smile; to wear an air of triumph.
[4] to cause (garments, linens, etc.) to deteriorate or change by wear: Hard use has worn these gloves.
[5] to impair, deteriorate, or consume gradually by use or any continued process: Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks.
[6] to waste or diminish gradually by rubbing, scraping, washing, etc.: The waves have worn these rocks.
[7] to make (a hole, channel, way, etc.) by such action.
[8] to bring about or cause a specified condition in (a person or thing) by use, deterioration, or gradual change: to wear clothes to rags; to wear a person to a shadow.
[9] to weary; fatigue; exhaust: Toil and care soon wear the spirit.
[10] to pass (time) gradually or tediously (usually followed by away or out ): We wore the afternoon away in arguing.
[11] Nautical . to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning until the wind is on the stern.
[12] British Dialect . to gather and herd (sheep or cattle) to a pen or pasture.
[13] to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off ).
[14] to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain: a strong material that will wear; colors that wear well.
[15] (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.
[16] 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.
[17] Nautical . (of a vessel) to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
[18] Obsolete . to be commonly worn; to be in fashion.
[19] 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.
[20] the state of being worn, as on the person.
[21] clothing or other articles for wearing; especially when fashionable or appropriate for a particular function (often used in combination): travel wear; sportswear.
[22] gradual impairment, wasting, diminution, etc., as from use: The carpet shows wear.
[23] the quality of resisting deterioration with use; durability.
[24] wear down , to reduce or impair by long wearing: to wear down the heels of one's shoes. to weary; tire: His constant talking wears me down. to prevail by persistence; overcome: to wear down the opposition.
[25] wear off , to diminish slowly or gradually or to diminish in effect; disappear: The drug began to wear off.
[26] wear out , to make or become unfit or useless through hard or extended use: to wear out clothes. to expend, consume, or remove, especially slowly or gradually. to exhaust, as by continued strain; weary: This endless bickering is wearing me out.
[27] wear thin , to diminish; weaken: My patience is wearing thin. to become less appealing, interesting, tolerable, etc.: childish antics that soon wore thin.
[28] (tr) to carry or have (a garment, etc) on one's person as clothing, ornament, etc
[29] (tr) to carry or have on one's person habitually she wears a lot of red
[30] (tr) to have in one's aspect to wear a smile
[31] (tr) to display, show, or fly a ship wears its colours
[32] to deteriorate or cause to deteriorate by constant use or action
[33] to produce or be produced by constant rubbing, scraping, etc to wear a hole in one's trousers
[34] to bring or be brought to a specified condition by constant use or action to wear a tyre to shreds
[35] (intr) to submit to constant use or action in a specified way his suit wears well
[36] (tr) to harass or weaken
[37] (when intr, often foll by on ) (of time) to pass or be passed slowly
[38] (tr) British slang to accept Larry won't wear that argument
[39] wear ship to change the tack of a sailing vessel, esp a square-rigger, by coming about so that the wind passes astern
[40] the act of wearing or state of being worn
[41] anything designed to be worn leisure wear (in combination ) nightwear
[42] deterioration from constant or normal use or action
[43] the quality of resisting the effects of constant use
[44] nautical to tack by gybing instead of by going through stays
[45] 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)

Words related to Wear

don, show, cover, wrap, bear, carry, sport, display, rub, stand, loss, employment, mileage, dilapidation, service, disappearance, impairment, damage, friction, abrasion

Words nearby Wear

weaponeer, weaponize, weaponry, weapons carrier, weapons of mass destruction, wear, wear and tear, wear another hat, wear down, wear off, wear one's heart on one's sleeve

Origin of Wear

before 900; (v.) Middle English weren to have (clothes) on the body, waste, damage, suffer waste or damage, Old English werian; cognate with Old Norse verja, Gothic wasjan to clothe; (noun) late Middle English were act of carrying on the body, derivative of the v.; akin to Latin vestis clothing (see vest)

Other words from Wear

wear·er , noun
re·wear , verb, re·wore, re·worn, re·wear·ing.

Word origin for Wear

C17: from earlier weare, of unknown origin

Synonyms for Wear

wear and tear, abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, impairment, inroads, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste