Word Finder - wears

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To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

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He's wearing some nice pants today.  She wore her medals with pride.  Please wear your seatbelt.  Can you wear makeup and sunscreen at the same time?  He was wearing his lunch after tripping and falling into the buffet.

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To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

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He wears eyeglasses.  She wears her hair in braids.

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To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.

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She wore a smile all day.  He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction.

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(with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.

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I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it.

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To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.

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You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.  The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks.  Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks.  Exile had worn the man to a shadow.

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To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.

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The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.

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To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.

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His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.  Toil and care soon wear the spirit.  Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win.

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To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.

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Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years.  This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times.  I have to say, our friendship has worn pretty well.  It's hard to get to know him, but he wears well.

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(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.

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Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately.

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(of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.

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wear on, wear away.  As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common.

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To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.

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• gybe

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To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.

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To defend; protect.

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To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.

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to wear the wolf from the sheep

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To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.

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An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.

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A fence placed across a river to catch fish.

The grand master alone wears a collar.

This alone wears well.

The heads are surrounded with a kind of head-dress or halo and one wears a necklace.

That's why he wears the trench coat all year round.

This was one of the great days; though the sky had from my clearing only the same everlastingly great look that it wears daily, and I saw no difference in it.

It is a gem of the first water which Concord wears in her coronet.

He wears it often.

At baptisms the priest wears a violet stole during the first part of the service, i.e.

He wears all these vestments only at the celebration of the eucharist and on other very solemn occasions; at other ministrations he wears only the epitrachelion and phainolion over his cassock.

In the "Reformed" Churches the minister wears the black "Geneva" gown with bands.

But this principle of the subordination of the reason wears a different aspect according to the century and writer referred to.

On the obverse is generally the king, who, in the earlier coins at any rate, wears a long open coat, knee boots and a tall cap - clearly the costume of a nomad from the north.

As the summer wears on a second form of insect appears amongst the root-dwellers, though hatched from the same eggs as the form described above.

After her husbands death the ambitious Hatshepsut assumed the full regal power; upon her monuments she wears the masculine garb and aspect of a king though the feminine gender is retained for her in the inscriptions.

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

He also wears green clothes and a green garland.

I tend to like makeup that's natural, looks great in any light, and wears well throughout the day.

According to the Roman Caeremoniale the bishop wears the mitra pretiosa on high festivals, and always during the singing of the Te Deum and the Gloria at mass.

Sometimes she wears a garland of flowers on her head, ears of corn and poppy-heads in her hand, symbolical of a prosperous harvest.

Atargatis, in the capacity of fro?uovxos, wears a mural crown, is the ancestor of the royal house, the founder of social and religious life, the goddess of generation and fertility (hence the prevalence of phallic emblems), and the inventor of useful appliances.

Besides these, the bishop also wears a pectoral cross (i yKbX7r Loy) and a medal containing a relic (7rave yea).

Thus a universal science of matter and motion was derived, by an unbroken sequence of deduction, from one radical principle; and analytical mechanics assumed the clear and complete form of logical perfection which it now wears.

When this bar wears away Albert Edward Nyanza will, in all probability, disappear as a lake and will become a river, a continuation of its present most southern affluent, the Ruchuru.

Owing to the fact that at temperatures between its melting and boiling point zinc has a strong affinity for iron, it is often contaminated by the scraper while being drawn from the condenser, as is shown by the fact that the scraper wears away rapidly.

Though generally of a mild character, it is persistently recurrent, and slowly saps and wears out the constitution; too often it is virulent and rapidly fatal.

This steadiness may vary during the flight of the projectile, as the shot may be unsteady for some distance after leaving the muzzle, afterwards steadying down, like a spinning-top. Again, a may increase as the gun wears out, after firing a number of rounds.

As the and century wears on, we come to controversial or philosophical works by Agrippa, Castor, Quadratus, Aristides.

Their enamel covering is confined to the apex, and soon wears away.

The god is usually clothed in a short sleeveless tunic, and wears a round close-fitting cap. His face is that of a middle-aged man, with unkempt hair.

Widely distributed in North America, the best come from Canada, are costly and are used for military caps, boas, muffs, trimmings, carriage rugs and coachmen's capes, and the fur wears exceedingly well.

To prevent substitution on the journey each recruit wears a string girdle sealed in lead.

Later she wears the crown of Lower Egypt, and carries in her hands a bow and arrows, a sign of her warlike character.

This ka was supposed to be born together with the person to whom it belonged, and on the very rare occasions when it is depicted, wears his exact semblance.

The contracted state, instead of rapidly subsiding after discontinuance of the stimulus, slowly and only partially wears off, the muscle remaining in a condition of physiological "contracture."

He sometimes wears a long robe, sometimes a light scarf.

The Bora wears the anga, otherwise he resembles the Meman.

The Rajput wears a full beard and whiskers, usually parted in the middle.

Hindus wear the angharkha or anga as Mahommedans do, but whereas theMahommedan has the opening on the left the Hindu wears it on the right.

In outlying villages he wears instead of the kurta a chadar or cloth, which he calls khes, on the upper part of his body.

The dress of Sikh women does not differ greatly from that of Hindu women; but in the Sirsa district and some other parts she wears the Mahommedan sutan or trousers, under the lhenga or skirt.

Next to the skin the Parsi wears a sadra or sacred shirt, with a girdle called kasti.

In country districts he wears a jarna, and over the jama a pechodi or shoulder cloth.

She also wears a sadra or sacred shirt.

It appears that the rapidity with which a x rubbing surface wears away is proportional to Fio.

Zanella was a broad-minded and patriotic ecclesiastic, and his character is justly held in equal honour with his poetry, which, if hardly to be termed powerful, wears a stamp of peculiar elegance and finish, and asserts a place of its own in modern Italian literature.

The poet wears an air of exalted superiority over the religious innovators of his day, and entertains a buoyant confidence that the future of the ancient gods of Rome will not belie their glorious past.

But from its very commencement the history of the republic wears a different aspect.

The officiating priest wears a cope, or at least a surplice with a violet stole, the other priests and clergy wear surplices.

In the Apollo Citharoedus or Musagetes in the Vatican, he is crowned with laurel and wears the long, flowing robe of the Ionic bard, and his form is almost feminine in its fulness; in a statue at Rome of the older and more vigorous type he is naked and holds a lyre in his left hand; his right arm rests upon his head, and a griffin is seated at his side.

The city wears a prosperous and busy appearance.