wear

Definitions of wear in various dictionaries:

noun - impairment resulting from long use

noun - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

noun - the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment

verb - be dressed in

verb - have on one's person

verb - have in one's aspect

verb - deteriorate through use or stress

verb - have or show an appearance of

verb - last and be usable

verb - go to pieces

verb - exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

verb - put clothing on one's body

To carry or have on the person as covering, adornment, or protection: wearing a jacket; must wear a seat belt.

To carry or have habitually on the person, especially as an aid: wears glasses.

To display in one’s appearance: always wears a smile.

To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner: wears her hair long.

To fly or display (colors).

To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure.

To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure: eventually wore hollows in the stone steps.

To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition: wore the clothes to rags; pebbles worn smooth.

To fatigue, weary, or exhaust: Your incessant criticism has worn my patience.

To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft.

To last under continual or hard use: a fabric that will wear.

To last through the passage of time: a friendship that wears well.

To break down or diminish through use or attrition: The rear tires began to wear.

To pass gradually or tediously: The hours wore on.

To come about with stern to windward.

The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use: The coat has had heavy wear.

Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use.

Gradual impairment or diminution resulting from use or attrition.

The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition: The engine has plenty of wear left.

To make or become unusable through long or heavy use.

To use up or consume gradually.

To exhaust; tire.

To punish by spanking: I’m going to wear you out! —idioms.

To be weakened or eroded gradually: Her patience is wearing thin.

To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use: excuses that are wearing thin.

verb - to have on one's person

WEAR - Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g...