Definition of wear

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Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..

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Dull :: Dull (v. t.) To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
Ware :: Ware (v. t.) To wear, or veer. See Wear..
Outwear :: Outwear (v. t.) To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Bore :: Bore (v. t.) To weary by tedious iteration or by dullness; to tire; to trouble; to vex; to annoy; to pester.
Fessitude :: Fessitude (n.) Weariness.
Fray :: Fray (v. i.) To wear out or into shreads, or to suffer injury by rubbing, as when the threads of the warp or of the woof wear off so that the cross threads are loose; to ravel; as, the cloth frays badly..
Perjurer :: Perjurer (n.) One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense..
Zoned :: Zoned (a.) Wearing a zone, or girdle..
Train :: Train (v.) That part of a gown which trails behind the wearer.
Buttonhole :: Buttonhole (v. t.) To hold at the button or buttonhole; to detain in conversation to weariness; to bore; as, he buttonholed me a quarter of an hour..
Irksome :: Irksome (a.) Weary; vexed; uneasy.
Flash :: Flash (a.) Wearing showy, counterfeit ornaments; vulgarly pretentious; as, flash people; flash men or women; -- applied especially to thieves, gamblers, and prostitutes that dress in a showy way and wear much cheap jewelry..
Tabarder :: Tabarder (n.) One who wears a tabard.
Attrition :: Attrition (n.) The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion..
Rapiered :: Rapiered (a.) Wearing a rapier.
Indefatigation :: Indefatigation (n.) Indefatigableness; unweariedness.
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..
Forswore :: Forswore () imp. of Forswear.
Spatterdashed :: Spatterdashed (a.) Wearing spatterdashes.
Wearying :: Wearying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Wear.
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