wearing

Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/]

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1. wearing (adj) — sense 1

Definition: Intended to be worn.

Example: Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

2. wearing (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.

Example: [The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

3. wearing (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Causing erosion.

4. wearing (noun) — sense 4

Definition: The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

5. wearing (noun) — sense 5

Definition: The act by which something is worn.

Example: formal crown-wearings

6. wearing (noun) — sense 6

Definition: That which is worn; clothes; garments.

Example: Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

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