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Webster 1913 Edition
Wearing
Wear′ing
,Noun.
1.
The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption.
Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his
wearing
. Latimer.
2.
That which is worn; clothes; garments.
[Obs.]
Give me my nightly
wearing
and adieu. Shakespeare
Wear′ing
,Adj.
Pertaining to, or designed for, wear;
as,
. wearing
apparelWebster 1828 Edition
Wearing
WEARING
,ppr.
1.
Bearing on or appendant to the person; diminishing by friction; consuming.2.
a. Denoting what is worn; as wearing apparel.WEARING
,Noun.
Definition 2024
wearing
wearing
English
Adjective
wearing (comparative more wearing, superlative most wearing)
- intended to be worn
- Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
- causing tiredness
- 2014 August 17, Jonathan Beckman, “Chasing Lost Time: the Life of C K Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator by Jean Findlay, review: 'cherishes inconsequential events': Translating Proust’s life work was more a labour than a love for C K Scott Moncrieff [print version: Trouble ahead, 16 August 2014, pp. R24–R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
- [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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- causing erosion
Translations
causing tiredness
causing erosion
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Noun
wearing (plural wearings)
- The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
- The act by which something is worn.
- formal crown-wearings
- That which is worn; clothes; garments.
- Shakespeare
- Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.
- Shakespeare
Translations
Verb
wearing
- present participle of wear
Derived terms
- hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)