wear

Definitions

• To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
• To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
• (colloquial) To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
• (intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
• To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
• (intransitive) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
• (intransitive) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.