Definitions for Wearing

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Wearing wear·ing

Spelling: [wair-ing]

IPA: /ˈwɛər ɪŋ/

Wearing is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 197 anagrams from letters in Wearing (aeginrw).

Definitions for Wearing

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.:

adjective

1. gradually impairing or wasting:
2. wearying or exhausting:
3. relating to or made for wear.

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 Wearing

First recorded in 1805-15; wear + -ing²

Examples for Wearing

wearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.

She was not wearing hejab but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman.

She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.

Otis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.

Some of the boots were past wearing when found, and some were not found.

When day broke they succeeded in wearing the ship with a remnant of the spritsail.

Why, those are my clothes you are wearing, you graceless rascal!

Was you telling' him that the dress ye were wearing' was a present from your old cook?

As though she had meant by wearing it to emphasize her belief in her lover.

Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.