Definitions for Wear

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Wear wear

Spelling: [wair]

IPA: /wɛər/

Wear is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 27 anagrams from letters in Wear (aerw).

Definitions for Wear

noun

1. the act of wearing; use, as of a garment:
2. the state of being worn, as on the person.
3. clothing or other articles for wearing; especially when fashionable or appropriate for a particular function (often used in combination):
4. gradual impairment, wasting, diminution, etc., as from use:
5. the quality of resisting deterioration with use; durability.

Idioms

1. wear thin, to diminish; weaken: to become less appealing, interesting, tolerable, etc.:

Verb phrases

1. wear down, to reduce or impair by long wearing: to weary; tire: to prevail by persistence; overcome:
2. wear off, to diminish slowly or gradually or to diminish in effect; disappear:
3. wear out, to make or become unfit or useless through hard or extended use: to expend, consume, or remove, especially slowly or gradually. to exhaust, as by continued strain; weary:

verb (used with object)

1. to carry or have on the body or about the person as a covering, equipment, ornament, or the like:
2. to have or use on the person habitually:
3. to bear or have in one's aspect or appearance:
4. to cause (garments, linens, etc.) to deteriorate or change by wear:
5. to impair, deteriorate, or consume gradually by use or any continued process:
6. to waste or diminish gradually by rubbing, scraping, washing, etc.:
7. to make (a hole, channel, way, etc.) by such action.
8. to bring about or cause a specified condition in (a person or thing) by use, deterioration, or gradual change:
9. to weary; fatigue; exhaust:
10. to pass (time) gradually or tediously (usually followed by away or out):
11. Nautical. to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning until the wind is on the stern.
12. British Dialect. to gather and herd (sheep or cattle) to a pen or pasture.

verb (used without object)

1. to undergo gradual impairment, diminution, reduction, etc., from wear, use, attrition, or other causes (often followed by away, down, out, or off).
2. to retain shape, color, usefulness, value, etc., under wear, use, or any continued strain:
3. (of time) to pass, especially slowly or tediously (often followed by on or away):
4. to have the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate, especially after a relatively long association:
5. Nautical. (of a vessel) to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
6. Obsolete. to be commonly worn; to be in fashion.

Origin of Wear

before 900; (v.) Middle English weren to have (clothes) on the body, waste, damage, suffer waste or damage, Old English werian; cognate with Old Norse verja, Gothic wasjan to clothe; (noun) l

Examples for Wear

No wonder Lady Macbeth declares she would be ashamed "to wear a heart so white."

This is a country where women are allowed to wear one of 14 hairstyles.

Yes, your German Shepherd Buster can wear his own health tracker.

Was it probable that she had anything suitable to wear to a lecture?

Why, you jack-fool, what would it be about save who should wear the crown of France?

Dare you to wear your brother's coat without the crescent which should stamp you as his cadet.

The grace of your figure makes everything you wear becoming.

You had a great line in your piece on Geoffrey Beene about the “genre” of evening wear.

Growing up as a teen in the 1960s, she had yearned to wear the same clothes her girlfriends wore.

Some of the staff who work at this hotel are North Korean and wear traditional North Korean dresses.