wearing

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/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/

adj 4noun 3name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

best, black, blue, correct, expensive, formal, gorgeous, inside

She was wearing her best dress to the wedding last Saturday.

VERB + WEARING

called, coat, displays, party, rock, see, stars, wash

I saw her wearing a beautiful red coat at the party last night.

WEARING + NOUN

adieu, apparel, bell, bell-bottoms, bottoms, chronology, clothes, crown

She was wearing bell-bottoms at the disco last night, just like in the seventies.

PREP.

since

She has been wearing the same old jacket since college.

ADV.

always, rather, rather

She was always wearing that old blue jacket, even in the summer.

Definitions

adj

Intended to be worn.

Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.

[The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

Causing erosion.

That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.

noun

The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

The act by which something is worn.

formal crown-wearings

That which is worn; clothes; garments.

Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

name

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment

wear

noun — (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding some

erosion
eroding

adjective — producing exhaustion

exhausting
tiring
wearying

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

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[The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

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Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.

Wiktionary

formal crown-wearings

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Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

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Wash before first wearing.

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