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Wearing

noun

1.

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it). Synonyms: eating away, eroding, erosion, wearing away.

2.

The act of having on your person as a covering or adornment. Synonym: wear.

adjective

1.

Producing exhaustion. Synonyms: exhausting, tiring, wearying. "The visit was especially wearing"

Wear

verb

(past wore; past part. worn)

1.

Be dressed in. Synonym: have on.

2.

Have on one's person. Synonym: bear. "Bear a scar"

3.

Have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality.

4.

Deteriorate through use or stress. Synonyms: wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin.

5.

Have or show an appearance of.

6.

Last and be usable. Synonyms: endure, hold out.

7.

Go to pieces. Synonyms: break, bust, fall apart, wear out. "The gears wore out" , "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

8.

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.

9.

Put clothing on one's body. Synonyms: assume, don, get into, put on. "He put on his best suit for the wedding" , "The princess donned a long blue dress" , "The queen assumed the stately robes" , "He got into his jeans"

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... wearing life, sir, a wearing life,' he went on with less heat, 'hearing generations of stoopid boys all blundering at the same stiff places, and worrying over the same old passages. I'm getting very tired of it; I'm an old man now. "Occidit miseros ...

— The Giant's Robe • F. Anstey

... says a female writer, "hidden in the soul, upon whose surface the slightest smile of affection falls, like sunlight, but whose very depths are stirred by the breath of unkindness, are too often unvisited by the kindly influence of kindred sympathies, and go wearing their own channels deeper, in silence and in secrecy, and in infinite bitterness,—undermining health, happiness, the joy of life, and making existence one succession of burden-bearing days. It is in this species of blight, ...

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... only a little ahead of the style. All girls'll be wearing them soon, no doubt. They're that independent. How old is the orphan George?" He changed a subject that was evidently so painful ...

— Mary Rose of Mifflin • Frances R. Sterrett

... notable occasion. Gertie's escort had a pair of driving-gloves, and he could not determine whether it looked more aristocratic to wear these or to carry them with a negligent air; he compromised on the departure platform by wearing one and carrying the other. The collector-dog trotted up with the box on his back, and both put in some coppers. They glanced ...

— Love at Paddington • W. Pett Ridge

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