The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wear \Wear\, v. i.
To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
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To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. ``Thus wore out night.''
--Milton.Away, I say; time wears.
--Shak.Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee.
--Ex. xviii. 18.His stock of money began to wear very low.
--Sir W. Scott.The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century.
--Beaconsfield.To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age.
To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on.
--G. Eliot.To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious employment, etc.