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wear

the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear"

impairment resulting from long use; "the tires showed uneven wear"

have or show an appearance of; "wear one's hair in a certain way"

have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"

put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans"

be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that day"

deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction wore out the cloth"

last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten years"

have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality; "He always wears a smile"

Synonyms:

• abate,
• abide,
• ablate,
• ablation,
• about ship,
• abrade,
• abrase,
• abrasion,
• abrasive,
• act a part,
• affect,
• apparel,
• array,
• assume,
• atomization,
• attire,
• attrition,
• back and fill,
• bark,
• bate,
• be dressed in,
• be eaten away,
• be infinitely repetitive,
• be tedious,
• bear away,
• bear off,
• bear to starboard,
• beat,
• beat about,
• bedizenment,
• bide,
• box off,
• break,
• breakup,
• bring about,
• bring round,
• buffing,
• burn out,
• burnishing,
• cant,
• cant round,
• carry on,
• cast,
• cast about,
• chafe,
• chafing,
• change course,
• change the heading,
• clothes,
• clothing,
• come about,
• consume,
• consume away,
• continue,
• continue to be,
• corrode,
• corrosion,
• costume,
• counterfeit,
• crumble,
• crumbling,
• debilitate,
• decay,
• decline,
• decomposition,
• decrease,
• defeat time,
• defy time,
• degradation,
• deliquesce,
• deplete,
• depreciate,
• detrition,
• die away,
• dilapidation,
• diminish,
• disintegration,
• disjunction,
• disorganization,
• dissipate,
• dissolution,
• dive,
• do a bit,
• do in,
• do up,
• double a point,
• drag on,
• drain,
• dramatize,
• drapery,
• dress,
• dressing,
• dribble away,
• drop,
• drop off,
• duds,
• dwell,
• dwindle,
• ebb,
• endure,
• enervate,
• erase,
• erasure,
• erode,
• erosion,
• exhaust,
• exist,
• extend,
• fag,
• fag out,
• fake,
• fall,
• fall away,
• fall off,
• fashion,
• fatigue,
• fatigues,
• feathers,
• feign,
• fetch about,
• fig,
• file,
• filing,
• flag,
• fray,
• frazzle,
• fret,
• fretting,
• gall,
• galling,
• garb,
• garments,
• gear,
• glut,
• gnaw,
• gnaw away,
• go about,
• go on,
• go on forever,
• grate,
• graze,
• grazing,
• grind,
• grinding,
• guise,
• gybe,
• habiliment,
• habit,
• harass,
• have on,
• heave round,
• histrionize,
• hold,
• hold on,
• hold out,
• incoherence,
• investiture,
• investment,
• irk,
• jade,
• jibe,
• jibe all standing,
• keep,
• keep on,
• knock out,
• knock up,
• languish,
• last,
• last long,
• last out,
• lessen,
• let up,
• limation,
• linen,
• live,
• live on,
• live through,
• maintain,
• make out like,
• melt away,
• miss stays,
• overact,
• overfatigue,
• overstrain,
• overtire,
• overweary,
• pall,
• perdure,
• perennate,
• persist,
• play,
• play a part,
• play a scene,
• playact,
• plummet,
• plunge,
• ply,
• polishing,
• poop,
• poop out,
• pretend,
• prevail,
• prostrate,
• put about,
• put back,
• put on,
• put on airs,
• rags,
• raiment,
• rasp,
• rasping,
• ravages of time,
• raze,
• remain,
• resolution,
• robes,
• round a point,
• rub away,
• rub off,
• rub out,
• rubbing away,
• run,
• run low,
• run on,
• sag,
• sandblasting,
• sanding,
• satiate,
• scour,
• scouring,
• scrape,
• scraping,
• scratch,
• scratching,
• scrub,
• scrubbing,
• scuff,
• sham,
• sheer,
• shift,
• shining,
• shrink,
• simulate,
• sink,
• skin,
• slew,
• smoothing,
• sport,
• sportswear,
• squander,
• stand,
• stay,
• stay on,
• style,
• subside,
• subsist,
• survive,
• sustain,
• swerve,
• swing round,
• swing the stern,
• tack,
• tail off,
• tarry,
• tatter,
• threads,
• throw about,
• tide over,
• tire,
• tire out,
• tire to death,
• togs,
• toilette,
• trim,
• turn,
• turn back,
• use,
• use up,
• veer,
• vestment,
• vesture,
• wane,
• waste,
• waste away,
• weaken,
• wear and tear,
• wear away,
• wear down,
• wear off,
• wear on,
• wear out,
• wear ragged,
• wear ship,
• wear well,
• wearing apparel,
• wearing away,
• weary,
• weather,
• weathering,
• wilt,
• wind,
• yaw