wear

To have on:

He's wearing some nice pants today.

She wore her medals with pride.

To have on:

He wears eyeglasses.

She wears her hair in braids.

To have on:

She wore a smile all day.

He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction.

To erode:

You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.

The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks.

To erode:

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

His stock of money[…] began to wear very low.

Clothing.

footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear

Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.

Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate, thing.

Fashion.

Motley's the onely weare.

Wearing.

It is obvious, of course, that a cylinder so applied is not for constant wear, and it is not intended in any way to correct any error of refraction, but is used merely as an exercise for a few minutes at a time at repeated intervals. In case of Oblique Astigmatism the wearing of the correction will frequently fail to give satisfaction when complicated by oblique muscular trouble, […]

Prolonged wear of the interceptor body armor outer tactical vest (OTV) is frequently blamed for common complaints of neck and shoulder pain. […] Even if patients improved after a period of light duty and shoulder rehabilitation, many complained of pain after returning to OTV wear when their shoulders again became the focal point of weight distribution.

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

To defend; protect.

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

to wear the wolf from the sheep

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