wearing

Plural: wearings

Noun

• (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
• the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
• The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
• The act by which something is worn.
• That which is worn; clothes; garments.

Verb

• be dressed in
  • "She was wearing yellow that day"
• have on one's person
• have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
• deteriorate through use or stress
• have or show an appearance of
• last and be usable
• go to pieces
• exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
• put clothing on one's body
• present participle and gerund of wear

Adjective Satellite

• producing exhaustion
  • "the visit was especially wearing"

Adj

• Intended to be worn.
• Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.
• Causing erosion.
• That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

Examples

• Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

Synonyms

assume, bear, break, bust, don, eating away, endure, eroding, erosion, exhausting, fag, fag out, fall apart, fatigue, get into, have on, hold out, jade, outwear, put on, tire, tire out, tiring, wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin, wear upon, wearing away, weary, wearying, draining, exhaustive, fatiguing, tiresome, weariful, wearing, wearisome

Antonyms

refresh

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