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US
/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /wˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /wˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
she bought it for everyday wear - (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
ADJECTIVE
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producing exhaustion
an exhausting march
the visit was especially wearing
How To Use wearing In A Sentence
- 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.
- 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.
- Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.
- He was clean-shaven, in his early 30s and wearing a dark blue t-shirt.
- The constable was on leave and wearing civilian clothes.
- Hats were popular in the eighties though mostly on girls, so wearing my fedora was a given. The Devil’s in the Diva
- But I am uncomfortable with the way he talks me into buying and wearing the costumes. The Sun
- Tracey is wearing a simple black dress.
- I also have a goldenrod-colored scarf (you know, one of those pashmina-y things) that goes nicely with this, and about two weeks ago I was in "the city" (which seems to be what you call San Francisco, if you live near it) wearing this dress, that scarf, and an old denim Levi's jacket I swiped from my Dad in roughly 1987 (with bright pink leather gloves sticking out of the breast pocket) and a tourist actually STOPPED ME ON THE STREET and asked to take my picture. The Return (With Butterflies) - A Dress A Day