Definition of wear

"wear" in the noun sense

1. wear

impairment resulting from long use

"the tires showed uneven wear"

2. clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment

a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

3. wear, wearing

the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment

"she bought it for everyday wear"

"wear" in the verb sense

1. wear, have on

be dressed in

"She was wearing yellow that day"

2. wear, bear

have on one's person

"He wore a red ribbon"

"bear a scar"

3. wear

have in one's aspect wear an expression of one's attitude or personality

"He always wears a smile"

4. wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thin

deteriorate through use or stress

"The constant friction wore out the cloth"

5. wear

have or show an appearance of

"wear one's hair in a certain way"

6. wear, hold out, endure

last and be usable

"This dress wore well for almost ten years"

7. break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart

go to pieces

"The lawn mower finally broke"

"The gears wore out"

"The old chair finally fell apart completely"

8. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

"We wore ourselves out on this hike"

9. wear, put on, get into, don, assume

put clothing on one's body

"What should I wear today?"

"He put on his best suit for the wedding"

"The princess donned a long blue dress"

"The queen assumed the stately robes"

"He got into his jeans"

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Quotations for wear

Better wear out shoes than sheets. [ Proverb ]

Few minds wear out; more rust out. [ Bovee ]

I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
For daws to peck at;
I am not what I am. [ William Shakespeare ]

Better to wear out than to rust out. [ Bishop Cumberland ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow
From azure skies the light they wear.
Are like heaven - no sorrow
Can float over hues so fair. [ Mrs. Osgood ]

Wide will wear, but narrow will tear. [ Proverb ]

Let every cuckold wear his own horns. [ Proverb ]

O noble fool!
A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Fine clothes wear soonest out of fashion. [ Proverb ]

It is better to wear out than to rust out. [ Bishop Cumberland ]

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown. [ Heywood ]

Till sorrow seemed to wear one common face. [ Congreve ]

A heady man and a fool may wear the same cap. [ Proverb ]

'Tis beautiful, when first the dewy light
Breaks on the earth! while yet the scented air
Is breathing the cool freshness of the night
And the bright clouds a tint of crimson wear. [ Elizabeth M. Chandler ]

What art thou? Have not I
An arm as big as thine? A heart as big?
Thy words, I grant, ate bigger, for I wear not
My dagger in my mouth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let none presume to wear an undeserved dignity. [ William Shakespeare ]

Why can't you wear a watch like everybody else? [ Yogi Berra, after being bumped by a man carrying a grandfather clock ]

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let the smith himself wear the fetters he forged. [ Proverb ]

Fools may invent fashions that wise men will wear. [ Proverb ]

Vice would be frightful, if it did not wear a mask. [ Proverb ]

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ever since we wear clothes we know not one another. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Not every parish priest can wear Dr. Luther's shoes. [ Proverb ]

Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]

If any fool finds the cap fits him, let him wear it. [ Proverb ]

He's an excellent man that can wear poverty decently. [ Proverb ]

Infidelities rupture love; little faults wear it out. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]

Honest men and knaves may possibly wear the same cloth. [ Proverb ]

The proudest vice is ashamed to wear its own face long. [ Proverb ]

If it were not for the belly, the back might wear gold. [ Proverb ]

Fathers that wear rags do make their children blind:
But fathers that bear bags shall see their children kind. [ William Shakespeare ]

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out. [ Hazlitt ]

It is not every man who can afford to wear a shabby coat. [ Colton ]

So light a foot will never wear out the everlasting flint. [ William Shakespeare ]

If every fool were to wear a bauble, they would grow dear. [ Proverb ]

Apes are never more beasts, than when they wear men's clothes. [ Proverb ]

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last. [ Goethe ]

Plain dealing is a jewel, but they that wear it are out of fashion. [ Proverb ]

Those laughing orbs, that borrow from azure skies the light they wear. [ Frances S. Osgood ]

That is the bitterest of all, - to wear the yoke of our own wrongdoing. [ George Eliot ]

Every one must wear out one pair of fool's shoes, if he wear out no more. [ German Proverb ]

If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Then let these useless streams be stayed; wear native courage in your face. [ Dr. Watts ]

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever. [ Zimmermann ]

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well. [ Goldsmith ]

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Women, like roses, should wear only their own colors, and emit no borrowed perfumes. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a, devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. [ Charles H. Parkhurst ]

For my own private satisfaction, I had rather be master of my own time than wear a diadem. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Would you eat finer bread than is made of wheat, or wear finer cloth than is made of wool? [ Proverb ]

To wear a horn and not know it, will do one no more harm than to eat a fly and not see it. [ Proverb ]

Many a withering thought lies hid, not lost, in smiles that least befit those who wear them most. [ Byron ]

In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life. [ Rahel ]

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. [ Chapin ]

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. [ Luther ]

The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]

Eternity doth wear upon her face the veil of time. They only see the veil, and thus they know not what they stand so near! [ Alexander Smith ]

I earn that I eat, get that I wear; owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dost thou now fall over to my foes? Thou wear a lion's hide! doff it for shame, And hang a calf's skin on those recreant limbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Greatness is like a laced coat from Monmouth Street, which fortune lends us for a day to wear, tomorrow puts it on another's back. [ Fielding ]

We always make our friend appear awkward and ridiculous by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications, which nature never intended him to wear. [ Junius ]

Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow. [ Shakespeare ]

Youth is not like a new garment which we can keep fresh and fair by wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily; and it will fast wear away. [ John Foster ]

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence. [ Swift ]

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumny, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principle has taken full effect on this state favorite. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Gratitude is never conferred but where there have been previous endeavours to excite it; we consider it as a debt, and our spirits wear a load till we have discharged the obligation. [ Goldsmith ]

As flowers never put on their best clothes for Sunday, but wear their spotless raiment and exhale their odor every day, so let your righteous life, free from stain, ever give forth the fragrance of the love of God. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone. [ A. de Musset ]

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending. [ Matthew Henry ]

Welfare requires one or two companions of intelligence, probity, and grace, to wear out life with, - persons with whom we can speak a few reasonable words every day, by whom we can measure ourselves, and who shall hold us fast to good sense and virtue. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Women have that feminine sensuousness which delights in color and odor and richness of fabric. Their sense of beauty is untaught. A little lower in the scale of civilization, they would pierce their noses, and dye their fingernails, and wear strings of glass beads. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt and support them through great actions. A cloak should be of three-pile, to keep its gloss in wear. [ Hare ]

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]

No man ever stood lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure there is greater anxiety to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience. I sometimes try my acquaintances by some such test as this - who could wear a patch, or two extra seams only, over the knee. [ Thoreau ]

The only thing that has been taught successfully to women is to wear becomingly the fig-leaf they received from their first mother. Everything that is said and repeated for the first eighteen or twenty years of a woman's life is reduced to this: My daughter, take care of your fig-leaf; your fig-leaf becomes you; your fig-leaf does not become you. [ Diderot ]

The unaffected of every country nearly resemble each other, and a page of our Confucius and your Tillotson have scarce any material difference. Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please. [ Goldsmith ]

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]

I would rather have a young fellow too much than too little dressed; the excess on that side will wear off, with a little age and reflection; but if he is negligent at twenty, he will be a sloven at forty, and stink at fifty years old. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care always that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you a very awkward air. [ Chesterfield ]

No process is so fatal as that which would cast all men in one mould. Every human being is intended to have a character of his own, to be what no other is, to do what no other can do. Our common nature is to be unfolded in unbounded diversities. It is rich enough for infinite manifestations. It is to wear innumerable forms of beauty and glory. Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influences to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach. [ Channing ]

wear in Scrabble®

The word wear is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters wear:

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The 157 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In wear

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wear in Words With Friends™

The word wear is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters wear:

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Word Growth involving wear

Shorter words in wear

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Longer words containing wear

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