wear
wear is a 4-letter English word with 27 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Same as Weir. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. Same as Weir.
- transitive verb. To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
- transitive verb. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
- transitive verb. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
- transitive verb. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
- transitive verb. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
- transitive verb. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
- transitive verb. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
- intransitive verb. To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
- intransitive verb. To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
- noun. The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
- noun. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
- noun. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
- noun. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
- noun. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
- noun. the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
"she bought it for everyday wear"
- noun. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
- noun. impairment resulting from long use
"the tires showed uneven wear"
- verb. have or show an appearance of
"wear one's hair in a certain way"
- verb. have on one's person
"He wore a red ribbon"
"bear a scar"
- verb. put clothing on one's body
"What should I wear today?"
"He put on his best suit for the wedding"
- verb. be dressed in
"She was wearing yellow that day"
- verb. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
"We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- verb. deteriorate through use or stress
"The constant friction wore out the cloth"
- verb. go to pieces
"The lawn mower finally broke"
"The gears wore out"
- verb. last and be usable
"This dress wore well for almost ten years"
- verb. have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
"He always wears a smile"
Synonyms
wearing, clothing, habiliment, vesture, wearable, bear, assume, don, fag, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, weary, break, bust, endure
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in wear:
Common word forms
wears, weared, wearer, wearing, wearable
Words from these letters
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