Definition of wore

"wore" 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 wore

Never morning wore
To evening but some heart did break. [ Tennyson ]

If all fools wore white caps we should seem a flock of geese. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Glory is a shroud that posterity often tears from the shoulders of those who wore it, when living. [ Beranger ]

By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]

The gracious and self-sacrificing and womanly women of our revolution wore dresses cut lower than those of their great-granddaughters, as any portrait gallery will show. The dress is indefensible, but let us not be too ready to condemn the wearer for worse sins than thoughtlessness and vanity. [ Mrs. L. G. Calhoun ]

wore in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters wore:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word wore

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The 152 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In wore

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wore in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters wore:

WORE
(45)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word wore

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The 163 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In wore

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Words containing the sequence wore

Words that start with wore (1 word)

Words with wore in them (1 word)

Words that end with wore (8 words)

Word Growth involving wore

Shorter words in wore

or ore

re ore

Longer words containing wore

outwore

swore forswore

swore outswore

swore overswore

swore reswore

swore unswore