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wear

(wâr)

v. wore (wôr), worn (wôrn), wear·ing, wears

v.tr.

1. To carry or have on one's person as covering, adornment, or protection: wearing a jacket; must wear a seat belt.

2. To carry or have habitually on one's person, especially as an aid: wears glasses.

3. To display in one's appearance: always wears a smile.

4. To bear, carry, or maintain in a particular manner: wears her hair long.

5. To fly or display (colors). Used of a ship, jockey, or knight.

6. To damage, diminish, erode, or consume by long or hard use, attrition, or exposure. Often used with away, down, or off: rocks worn away by the sea; shoes worn down at the heels.

7. To produce by constant use, attrition, or exposure: eventually wore hollows in the stone steps.

8. To bring to a specified condition by long use or attrition: wore the clothes to rags; pebbles worn smooth.

9. To fatigue, weary, or exhaust: Your incessant criticism has worn my patience.

10. Nautical To make (a sailing ship) come about with the wind aft.

v.intr.

a. To last under continual or hard use: a fabric that will wear.

b. To last through the passage of time: a friendship that wears well.

2. To break down or diminish through use or attrition: The rear tires began to wear.

3. To pass gradually or tediously: The hours wore on.

4. Nautical To come about with stern to windward.

1. The act of wearing or the state of being worn; use: This shirt is ideal for wear in sultry climates.

2. Clothing, especially of a particular kind or for a particular use. Often used in combination: rainwear; footwear.

3. Damage resulting from use or age: The rug shows plenty of wear.

4. The ability to withstand impairment from use or attrition: The engine has plenty of wear left.

Phrasal Verbs:

wear down

To break down or exhaust by relentless pressure or resistance: The child's pleading finally wore her parents down.

wear off

To diminish gradually in effect: The drug wore off.

wear out

1. To make or become unusable through long or heavy use: wore out a pair of hockey skates; a vacuum that finally wore out.

2. To exhaust; tire: Raking the leaves wore me out.

3. To use up or consume gradually: His complaining finally wore out my patience.

Idioms:

wear the pants/trousers Informal

To exercise controlling authority in a household.

wear thin

1. To be weakened or eroded gradually: Her patience is wearing thin.

2. To become less convincing, acceptable, or popular, as through repeated use: excuses that are wearing thin.

[Middle English weren, from Old English werian; see wes- in Indo-European roots.]

wear′er n.

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wear out

vb (adverb)

1. to make or become unfit or useless through wear

2. (tr) to exhaust or tire

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Verb	1.	wear out - exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" fag out, tire out, wear down, wear upon, weary, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, fag, wear indispose - cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed" exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat - wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" overfatigue, overtire, overweary - tire excessively
	2.	wear out - go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" fall apart, bust, wear, break decay, dilapidate, crumble - fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" fray, frazzle - wear away by rubbing; "The friction frayed the sleeve" bust, break - ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
	3.	wear out - deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction wore out the cloth" wear off, wear thin, wear down, wear deteriorate - become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated" ablate - wear away through erosion or vaporization scuff - get or become scuffed; "These patent leather shoes scuffed"

wear

verb

1. To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction:

bite, corrode, eat, erode, gnaw, wear away.

2. To diminish the strength and energy of:

drain, fatigue, jade, tire, wear down, wear out, weary.

phrasal verb
wear away

To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction:

bite, corrode, eat, erode, gnaw, wear.

phrasal verb
wear down

To diminish the strength and energy of:

drain, fatigue, jade, tire, wear, wear out, weary.

phrasal verb
wear out

1. To make extremely tired:

exhaust, fag (out), tire out.

Informal: knock out, tucker (out).

Slang: do in, poop (out).

Idioms: run ragged, take it out of.

2. To diminish the strength and energy of:

drain, fatigue, jade, tire, wear, wear down, weary.

Translations

يَبْلى، يَصْبِحُ غَيْر مُلائِم للإرتِداء

elkopik

gatslíta

logorare logorarsi

slite ut

изматывать изнашивать изнашиваться изнурять уставать

obnosiť

eskimekyıpranmak

使不堪使用

w>wear out

vt sep

(lit) → kaputt machen; carpet → abtreten; clothes, shoes → kaputt tragen; record, machinery → abnutzen

(fig: = exhaust) (physically) → erschöpfen, erledigen (inf); (mentally) → fertigmachen (inf); to be worn out → erschöpft or erledigt sein; (mentally) → am Ende sein (inf); to wear oneself out → sich überanstrengen, sich kaputtmachen (inf)

vi → kaputtgehen; (clothes, curtains, carpets) → verschleißen; his patience has worn out/is rapidly wearing out → seine Geduld ist erschöpft or am Ende/erschöpft sich zusehends

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wear

(weə) – past tense wore (woː) ; past participle worn (woːn) – verb

1. to be dressed in or carry on (a part of) the body. She wore a white dress; Does she usually wear spectacles?

2. to arrange (one's hair) in a particular way. She wears her hair in a pony-tail.

3. to have or show (a particular expression). She wore an angry expression.

4. to (cause to) become thinner etc because of use, rubbing etc. This carpet has worn in several places; This sweater is wearing thin at the elbows.

5. to make (a bare patch, a hole etc) by rubbing, use etc. I've worn a hole in the elbow of my jacket.

6. to stand up to use. This material doesn't wear very well.

noun

1. use as clothes etc. I use this suit for everyday wear; Those shoes won't stand much wear.

2. articles for use as clothes. casual wear; sportswear; leisure wear.

3. (sometimes wear and tear) damage due to use. The hall carpet is showing signs of wear.

4. ability to withstand use. There's plenty of wear left in it yet.

ˈwearable adjective

(negative unwearable) fit to be worn. My only wearable coat is at the cleaners.

ˈwearer noun

a dress that makes the wearer feel elegant.

ˈwearing adjective

exhausting. I've had rather a wearing day.

worn (woːn) adjective

damaged as a result of use. a badly-worn carpet.

wear away

to make or become damaged, thinner, smoother etc through use, rubbing etc. The steps have (been) worn away in places.

wear off

to become less. The pain is wearing off.

wear out

to (cause to) become unfit for further use. My socks have worn out; I've worn out my socks.

worn out

1. so damaged by use as to be unfit for further use. These shoes are worn out; a worn-out sweater.