wear
To have on:
Verb 4 meanings
To have on:
“He's wearing some nice pants today.”
To erode:
“You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.”
To endure:
“I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it.”
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.
Noun 4 meanings
Clothing.
“footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear”
Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
Fashion.
Wearing.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *waʀjan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjaną (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”).
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WEAR at a glance
WEAR has 4 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (W 4 + E 1 + A 1 + R 1) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #1,250 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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