wear
IPA: wˈɛr
noun
- (in combination) Clothing.
- Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
- Fashion.
- Wearing.
- A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its banks.
- Dated form of weir. [An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.]
verb
- (transitive) To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- (transitive) To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- (transitive) To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- 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.
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- (intransitive) 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.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (nautical) 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. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
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Examples of "wear" in Sentences
- He likes to wear jeans and a t shirt.
- I tried to wear a tight bodice dress.
- The man likes to wear shirts with collars.
- He wears a miner's cap and red and black flannel shirt.
- The worn boot is decrepit, misshapen and painful to wear.
- He is dressed in a suit with tailcoat and wears a cravat.
- He wears boots, gloves, a kerchief, and a ten gallon hat.
- The person is wearing a white shirt, black pants and footwear.
- The person is wearing a whit shirt and black pants and footwear.
- The man on the left is wearing a checkered shirt with a rain jacket.
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