Wearing

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Intended to be worn: wearing apparel.
  • adj. Causing fatigue; tiring: a wearing visit.
  • adj. Causing wear; eroding: the wearing effects of wind on rock formations.
  • adj. Subject to or showing indication of wear: lubrication applied to wearing points.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. intended to be worn
  • adj. causing tiredness
  • adj. causing erosion
  • n. the mechanical process of eroding or grinding
  • v. Present participle of wear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
  • n. That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • adj. Pertaining to, or designed for, wear.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act. of one who wears.
  • n. That which one wears; clothes; garments.
  • n. The act of wearing away or passing.
  • Wasting; consuming; exhausting; tiring: as, wearing suspense or grief.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. producing exhaustion
  • n. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
  • n. the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
  • Equivalent
    effortful   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deed    human action    human activity    act   
    Form
    hard-wearing    or    hardwearing    hard wearing   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    use    conduct    consumption    clothes    garments    racking    grinding   
    Verb Stem
    wear   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Baring    Behring    Bering    airing    baring    bearing    blaring    caring    chairing    comparing   
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