EGAVE

wear

About 24.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To have on: To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc.
    He's wearing some nice pants today.
  2. verb To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc.
    He's wearing some nice pants today.
  3. verb To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
    He wears eyeglasses.
  4. verb To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
    She wore a smile all day.
  5. verb To erode: 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.
    You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.
  6. verb 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.
    You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.
  7. verb To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
    The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
  8. verb To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
    His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.

Similar words

put on clothes vesture apparel clothing bust break fall apart get into wear off

Often followed by

a the and it out them on of their

Word family

Wear weared wearer wearers wearing wears wore worn

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