wearing
gradually impairing or wasting: Reading small print can be wearing on the eyes.
wearying or exhausting: a wearing task.
relating to or made for wear.
Origin of wearing
1Other words from wearing
- wear·ing·ly, adverb
- un·wear·ing, adjective
Words Nearby wearing
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How to use wearing in a sentence
Because vaccine production is still scaling up, getting things under control well enough to head off a second phase of the pandemic would have to rely heavily on social distancing and mask-wearing.
Their spread can be inhibited by the same common-sense measures, like social distancing and mask-wearing.
Coronavirus mutations add urgency to vaccination effort as experts warn of long battle ahead | Joel Achenbach, Ariana Eunjung Cha | January 30, 2021 | Washington PostDining halls will be all takeout at first, to maximize mask-wearing in places where students run into each other.
Spring term delays: New wave of coronavirus uncertainty slams higher education | Nick Anderson | January 20, 2021 | Washington PostAirlines typically require self-declarations and mask-wearing by passengers but do not conduct professional health screenings or require coronavirus testing of domestic passengers.
FAA approves airport coronavirus screenings, paving way for first program to launch in Iowa | Ian Duncan | January 19, 2021 | Washington PostBerenson said on the show Monday that mask-wearing has made “absolutely zero difference” in alleviating the pandemic, despite the scientific consensus to the contrary.
At Fox News, a post-election shake-up brings more opinion at the expense of news | Jeremy Barr | January 19, 2021 | Washington Post
One difference was that Chen was herself wearing white gloves.
She is wearing a crop top, and Andrew has his arm wrapped around her waist.
Buckingham Palace Disputes Sex Allegations Against Prince ‘Randy Andy’ | Tom Sykes | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTOtis says he was wearing a tan jacket similar to one described by witnesses.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside | Justin Rohrlich | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe was not wearing hejab but more surprising that that, is married to an Englishman.
50 Shades of Iran: The Mullahs’ Kinky Fantasies about Sex in the West | IranWire, Shima Sharabi | January 1, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTwearing the right foot of a chicken was considered good luck.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
Rosemary in Search of a Father | C. N. WilliamsonThat she had her definite reason he knew, as a woman knows when another woman is wearing a last year's gown.
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellGovernor Endicott, and other influential men in Massachusetts, formed an association against wearing long hair!
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellI should judge from the streets that not more than one-fourth of the females of Galway belong to the shoe-wearing aristocracy.
Glances at Europe | Horace Greeley
British Dictionary definitions for wearing
/ (ˈwɛərɪŋ) /
causing fatigue or exhaustion; tiring
Derived forms of wearing
- wearingly, adverb
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