Word Finder - wore

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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.

synonyms

• 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.

I wish everyone wore rose-colored glasses the way you do.

They wore blue uniforms and queer little caps.

Fred wore an ear-to-ear grin.

Darkyn wore her out, and when she'd woken, she was alone.

He never wore a coat and she wondered if he even felt the cold west Texas wind.

The image on his bicep was the same she wore around her neck.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

Dean was thankful they both wore old hiking boots as they stepped forward, gazing with trepidation as the cool breath of the mine met them.

She wore an impish look, high cheekbones and the only lavender eyes Dean had ever seen.

She wore a T-shirt and shorts that revealed her shapely, soft legs.

While he was instantly embarrassed and wore stunned look on his face, he saw no point in denying his activity.

He was fully clothed and wore a light jacket.

As the days wore on, the drifts gradually shrunk, but before they were wholly gone another storm came, so that I scarcely felt the earth under my feet once all winter.

Even the way she wore her hair, with those braids wrapped around the top of her head like a crown and the long shiny blond curls falling around her shoulders and down her back – she wasn't simply beautiful.

In the king's face, which he wore as a mask, there was a remoteness and inaccessibility of grief which I shall never forget.

She wore a camisole and shorts, her large breasts straining at the thin fabric between them.

The same way he wore down her resistance before.

Prince Vasili's daughter, the beautiful Helene, came to take her father to the ambassador's entertainment; she wore a ball dress and her badge as maid of honor.

But in nothing in the house was the holiday so noticeable as in Marya Dmitrievna's broad, stern face, which on that day wore an invariable look of solemn festivity.

Next morning Alpatych donned a jacket he wore only in town and went out on business.

All that was done around her and to her at this time, all the attention devoted to her by so many clever men and expressed in such pleasant, refined ways, and the state of dove-like purity she was now in (she wore only white dresses and white ribbons all that time) gave her pleasure, but her pleasure did not cause her for a moment to forget her aim.

The countess was now over sixty, was quite gray, and wore a cap with a frill that surrounded her face.

She wore a somber look as she glanced nervously at me before speaking to the detective.

She wore the black dress still.

You wore that dress the same color as the blooming apple trees.

Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of elevation they had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main--a type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices.

She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise.

A tall, beautiful woman with a mass of plaited hair and much exposed plump white shoulders and neck, round which she wore a double string of large pearls, entered the adjoining box rustling her heavy silk dress and took a long time settling into her place.

He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots.

He was clean-shaven and wore a Guardsman's padded coat with an Order of St. George at his buttonhole and a plain forage cap set straight on his head.

One was taller than the other; he wore an officer's hat and seemed quite exhausted.

He wore headphones and spoke into a microphone, simultaneously responding to half a dozen chat windows open on this computer.

He wore nothing but sweatpants, and his exposed upper back drew her attention.

She wore the camisole that amplified her breasts, her curls captured at the nape of her neck.

He looked small in the middle of the foyer, and he wore an insincere smile like he might any other piece of easily removable clothing.

His overcoat was slung over one arm, and he wore a wool suit over a dark turtleneck.

She wore one of the dresses past-Deidre bought.

Just like their four-hour trip to the spa, the wardrobe Hannah bought Toby, the jewelry they both wore.

Her sister wore maroon, as did many of the other women in masks around her.

He wore a glowing talisman on a leather chain around his neck.

She wore a collar like a dog with her master's name on it.

She wore a jumper that reeked of her own body odor.

She wore a snug dress that revealed more of her large breasts than she probably should.

Even though she wore a snug shirt beneath it, Darian couldn't help willing her to hurry.

Darian looked around, expecting to see her again beneath the shade of an apple tree, as beautiful as she was deadly with the daggers she wore at her waist.

She wore the mark of Darian, the firstborn of the White God.

Sofi wore the White God's pendant, Bianca wore Dusty's mark, and Yully wore Jule's.

His surprise wore off, replaced by cold rage that rose from deep within him.

The only man seated before her wore chains of gold and carried a sword with a ruby in its hilt.

One of them wore a sash of red and black, a youth his age hiding behind him.