Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 27 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Same as Weir.
- 2transitive 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.
- 3transitive 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.
- 4transitive verb
To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
- 5transitive 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.
- 6transitive 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.
- 7transitive verb
To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
- 8transitive verb
To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
- 9intransitive 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.
- 10intransitive 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.
- 11noun
The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
- 12noun
The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
- 13noun
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.
- 14noun
A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
- 15noun
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.
- 16noun
the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
"she bought it for everyday wear"
Synonyms
- 17noun
a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
- 18noun
impairment resulting from long use
"the tires showed uneven wear"
- 19verb
have or show an appearance of
"wear one's hair in a certain way"
- 20verb
have on one's person
"He wore a red ribbon"
"bear a scar"
Synonyms
- 21verb
put clothing on one's body
"What should I wear today?"
"He put on his best suit for the wedding"
- 22verb
be dressed in
"She was wearing yellow that day"
- 23verb
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
"We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- 24verb
deteriorate through use or stress
"The constant friction wore out the cloth"
- 25verb
go to pieces
"The lawn mower finally broke"
"The gears wore out"
- 26verb
last and be usable
"This dress wore well for almost ten years"
Synonyms
- 27verb
have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
"He always wears a smile"
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