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US
/ˈwɛɹ/
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NOUN
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the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
she bought it for everyday wear -
impairment resulting from long use
the tires showed uneven wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
VERB
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have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
He always wears a smile -
deteriorate through use or stress
The constant friction wore out the cloth -
have on one's person
He wore a red ribbon
bear a scar -
have or show an appearance of
wear one's hair in a certain way -
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
We wore ourselves out on this hike -
be dressed in
She was wearing yellow that day -
last and be usable
This dress wore well for almost ten years -
put clothing on one's body
The princess donned a long blue dress
What should I wear today?
The queen assumed the stately robes
He got into his jeans
He put on his best suit for the wedding -
go to pieces
The gears wore out
The old chair finally fell apart completely
The lawn mower finally broke
How To Use wear In A Sentence
- 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. The Cryptogram A Novel
- 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. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- 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.
- Gideon could see the places where the silver was wearing off the cane and he noticed a good deal of clumsy darning on the inside of the cloak, as though the lining had come away from the backing several times.
- There's a lot of wear in these tyres.
- IT'S a little disconcerting to walk into a hotel room and find a quintet of young men all wearing slap which is far more expertly applied than your own.
- He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt.
- I couldn't swear to it, what with scissors snipping and buzzers buzzing, but I think the young lad was asking his dad why you still needed a haircut when you were going bald.
- Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.