Difference between clothe and wear
Definitions
verb
- provide with clothes or put clothes on
- cover as if with clothing
- furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
Examples
He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
In many places, glittering among the clothes, were gold and silver coins, a few silver ornaments such as buckles, and watches -- things not missed by the pirates in the transport of their flight.
I lashed the clothes that I had been brought to wear at the hospital into the bag, a couple of ancient pairs of socks that felt suddenly found and familiar.
Definitions
noun
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
- impairment resulting from long use
- a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
verb
- have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
- deteriorate through use or stress
- have on one's person
- have or show an appearance of
- exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
Examples
Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.
Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
