1. To carry or have on the person as covering, adornment, or protection: wearing a jacket; must wear a seat belt.2. To carry or have habitually on the person, especially as an aid: wears glasses.3. To display in one's appearance: always wears a smile.4. To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner: wears her hair long.5. To fly or display (colors). Used of a ship, jockey, or knight. 6. To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure. Often used with away, down, or off:rocks worn away by the sea; shoes worn down at the heels.7. To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure: eventually wore hollows in the stone steps.8. To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition: wore the clothes to rags; pebbles worn smooth.9. To fatigue, weary, or exhaust: Your incessant criticism has worn my patience.10.Nautical To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
1a. To last under continual or hard use: a fabric that will wear.b. To last through the passage of time: a friendship that wears well.2. To break down or diminish through use or attrition: The rear tires began to wear.3. To pass gradually or tediously: The hours wore on.4.Nautical To come about with stern to windward.
NOUN:
1. The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use: The coat has had heavy wear.2. Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use. Often used in combination: rainwear; footwear.3. Gradual impairment or diminution resulting from use or attrition. 4. The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition: The engine has plenty of wear left.
PHRASAL VERBS:
wear down To break down or exhaust by relentless pressure or resistance. wear off To diminish gradually in effect: The drug wore off.wear out1. To make or become unusable through long or heavy use. 2. To use up or consume gradually. 3. To exhaust; tire. 4.Chiefly Southern U.S. To punish by spanking,
IDIOMS:
wear thepants(or trousers)Informal To exercise controlling authority in a household. wear thin1. To be weakened or eroded gradually: Her patience is wearing thin.2. To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use: excuses that are wearing thin.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English weren, from Old English werian. See wes-2 in Appendix I.
wâr
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