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Idioms for wear
- to diminish; weaken: My patience is wearing thin.
- to become less appealing, interesting, tolerable, etc.: childish antics that soon wore thin.
wear thin,
Origin of wear
before 900; (v.) Middle English weren to have (clothes) on the body, waste, damage, suffer waste or damage, Old English werian; cognate with Old Norse verja,Gothic wasjan to clothe; (noun) late Middle English were act of carrying on the body, derivative of the v.; akin to Latin vestis clothing (see vest)
OTHER WORDS FROM wear
wearer, nounre·wear, verb, re·wore, re·worn, re·wear·ing.Words nearby wear
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British Dictionary definitions for wear (1 of 3)
wear1
/ (wɛə) /
verb wears, wearing, wore or worn
noun
Derived forms of wear
wearer, nounWord Origin for wear
Old English werian; related to Old High German werien, Old Norse verja, Gothic vasjan
British Dictionary definitions for wear (2 of 3)
wear2
/ (wɛə) /
verb wears, wearing, wore or worn
nautical to tack by gybing instead of by going through stays
Word Origin for wear
C17: from earlier weare, of unknown origin
British Dictionary definitions for wear (3 of 3)
Wear
/ (wɪə) /
noun
a river in NE England, rising in NW Durham and flowing southeast then northeast to the North Sea at Sunderland. Length: 105 km (65 miles)
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