intransitive verb. To carry or have on one's person as covering, adornment, or protection.

intransitive verb. To carry or have habitually on one's person, especially as an aid.

intransitive verb. To display in one's appearance.

intransitive verb. To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner.

intransitive verb. To fly or display (colors). Used of a ship, jockey, or knight.

intransitive verb. To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure. Often used with away, down, or off.

intransitive verb. To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure.

intransitive verb. To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition.

intransitive verb. To fatigue, weary, or exhaust.

intransitive verb. To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft.

intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To last under continual or hard use.

intransitive verb. To last through the passage of time.

intransitive verb. To break down or diminish through use or attrition.

intransitive verb. To pass gradually or tediously.

intransitive verb. To come about with stern to windward.

noun. The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use.

noun. Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use. Often used in combination.

noun. Damage resulting from use or age.

noun. The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition.

phrasal verb. To break down or exhaust by relentless pressure or resistance.

phrasal verb. To diminish gradually in effect.

phrasal verb. To make or become unusable through long or heavy use.

phrasal verb. To exhaust; tire.

phrasal verb. To use up or consume gradually.

idiom. (pants/trousers) To exercise controlling authority in a household.

idiom. (wear thin) To be weakened or eroded gradually.

idiom. (wear thin) To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use.

noun. The act of wearing or using, or the state of being worn or used, as garments, ornaments, etc.; use: as, a garment not for every-day wear.

noun. Stuff or material for articles of wear; material for garments, etc.

noun. An article or articles worn, or intended or fit to be worn; style of dress, adornment, or the like; hence, fashion; vogue.

noun. Use; usage received in course of being worn or used; the impairment or diminution in bulk, value, efficiency, etc., which results from use, friction, time, or the like.

To carry or bear on the body as a covering or an appendage for warmth, decency, ornament, or other use; put or have on: as, to wear fine clothes; to wear diamonds.

To use, affect, or be in the habit of using in one's costume or adornment: as, to wear green.

To consume by frequent or habitual use; deteriorate or waste by wear; use up: as, boots well worn.

To waste or impair by rubbing or attrition; lessen or diminish by continuous action upon; consume; waste; destroy by degrees.

Hence To exhaust; weary; fatigue.

To cause or produce by constant percussion or attrition; form by continual rubbing: as, a constant current of water will wear a channel in stone.

To efface; obliterate.

To have or exhibit an appearance of; bear; carry; exhibit; show.

To disaccustom to one thing and accustom to another; bring gradually; lead: often with in or into before the new thing or state.

Nautical, to bring (a vessel) on another tack by turning her with her head away from the wind; veer. Also ware.

To lay out; expend; spend; waste; squander. Compare ware.

To waste or destroy by degrees; consume tediously: as, to wear out life in idle projects.

Hence— To obliterate; efface.

To harass; tire completely; fatigue; exhaust; waste or consume the strength of.

To be in fashion; be in common or recognized use.

To become fit or suitable by use; become accustomed.

To last or hold out in course of use or the lapse of time: generally with well or ill.

To undergo gradual impairment or diminution through use, attrition, or lapse of time; waste or diminish gradually; become obliterated: often with away, off, or out.

"‘boom’, ‘skipper’, ‘tafferel’, ‘to smuggle’; ‘to wear’, in the sense of veer, as when we say ‘_to wear_ a ship’; ‘skates’, too, and"

stockings  to wear away  to wear off  to wear one's heart upon one's sleeve  to wear out  

to wear upon  

wear and tear  

outworn  wear away  wear down  wear off  wear one's heart on one's sleeve  

Fashion & Style  

act  deed  deterioration  endure  feature  

Adair  Aer  Altair  Astaire  Ayre  

attire  break  clothe  corrosion  damage  

abate  abide  ablate  ablation  about ship  

Weir  weir  wore  worn  

wearing  wears  wore  worn