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wearing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. Wore (w[=o]r); p. p. Worn (w[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.]
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To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
What compass will you wear your farthingale?
--Shak.On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.
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To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. ``He wears the rose of youth upon him.''
--Shak.His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine.
--Keble. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
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To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
That wicked wight his days doth wear.
--Spenser.The waters wear the stones.
--Job xiv. 19. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
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To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. --Locke. To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay. To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth. To wear on or To wear upon, to wear. [Obs.] ``[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]'' --Chaucer. To wear out.
To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book.
To consume tediously. ``To wear out miserable days.''
--Milton.To harass; to tire. ``[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High.''
--Dan vii. 25.-
To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service.
To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.]
Wearing \Wear"ing\, n.
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The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing.
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That which is worn; clothes; garments. [Obs.]
Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.
--Shak.
Wearing \Wear"ing\, a. Pertaining to, or designed for, wear; as, wearing apparel.
Wiktionary
1 intended to be worn 2 causing tiredness 3 causing erosion n. 1 The mechanical process of eroding or grinding. 2 The act by which something is worn. 3 That which is worn; clothes; garments. v
(present participle of wear English)
WordNet
adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring, wearying]
n. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) [syn: erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing away]
the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: wear]
Wikipedia
Wearing may refer to:
- Wearing (surname), a surname
- Wearing clothes, a feature of all modern human societies
- Wearing ship, a sailing maneuver
Wearing is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alison Wearing (born 1967), Canadian writer
- Ben Wearing (born 1989), Australian football player
- Benny Wearing (1901-1968), Australian rugby league player
- Clive Wearing (bon 1938), British musicologist
- Gillian Wearing (born 1963), English conceptual artist
- J. P. Wearing (born circa 1945), English-American author
- Michael Wearing (21st century), British television producer
- William Alfred Wearing (1816-1875) South Australian Supreme Court judge
Usage examples of "wearing".
He possesses the Lovering allele of cold virus paranoia, wearing wool coats in the height of summer.
The coyote in the picture had faded to a greenish-yellow and its yellow eyes were almost white, but it stared out of the picture looking as hearty and unconcerned as Jake Ambler, wearing its camera face.
The most annoying aspect of the whole situation was Thomas Christie, standing at the foot of the stairs with a mug of beer in his hand, watching as I was led off, and wearing the only grin I had ever seen on his hairy face.
Snape was wearing white tie and tails, like the rest of the men, looking dashing enough that many, many women in the room were giving him quite appreciative glances.
She was wearing her arty get-up, but had discarded the wooden beads in favour of a brooch consisting of a wooden letter M.
Muslim minority, as symbolized by the highly controversial decision in 2003 to ban Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in schools, on the principle of the role of the state education system in preserving the secular and assimilatory values of the republic.
Kip, I hate to be a bother, but this analgesic is wearing off fast, and it has some unpleasant side effects.
It was humiliating to have to explain that she was allowed no money, but at least having to endure this attenuated her embarrassment over wearing so little.
Presently Lang took off the tall hat he was wearing, placed it on his knee, produced paper and pencil, set the paper on the crown of the hat and began to write like a spiritualist automatist, if that is the right word, all the time keeping up a flow of argument and conversation with A.
And so Jenny, though in black, kept on going to school, to ballet classes and rehearsals, wearing a soft black tam and a black coat that was too big for her, advancing step by step in black cotton stockings.
Walking through a maze of stacked magazines and expired telephone books, she headed toward the mantel, where she saw a statue of Buddha resembling Baboo the Genie wearing balloony, CP Shades culottes.
If bankrupt, he should be condemned, as formerly, to the pillory on the Place de la Bourse, and exposed for two hours, wearing a green cap.
Spencer Howell, fresh from the shower and wearing a pink negligee, stood in the door of her bathroom and brushed her hair, waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Ed Banning to notice her.
She came out, still wearing her black beatnik outfit, with her hands tied behind her.
He was wearing one belted around his bulk, yet if he had handled a sword these past twenty years.