Synonyms for wearing

Grammar : Adj

Spell : wair-ing

Phonetic Transcription : ˈwɛər ɪŋ

Définition of wearing

Origin : "action of wearing" (clothes), mid-15c., from wear (v.). Meaning "what one wears" is 1570s. To be the worse for wear is attested from 1782; noun phrase wear and tear is first recorded 1660s, implying the sense "process of being degraded by use."

adj tiring

Example sentences :

As though she had meant by wearing it to emphasize her belief in her lover.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Why, those are my clothes you are wearing, you graceless rascal!
Extract from : « The Penance of Magdalena and Other Tales of the California Missions » by J. Smeaton Chase

Was you telling' him that the dress ye were wearing' was a present from your old cook?
Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

When day broke they succeeded in wearing the ship with a remnant of the spritsail.
Extract from : « The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson » by Robert Southey

Some of the boots were past wearing when found, and some were not found.
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

Were they wearing light tweed knickerbockers with big checks?
Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson

It will not prevent you from wearing your shoe and stocking.
Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie

She was wearing a simple grey dress of some shimmering material.
Extract from : « Casanova's Homecoming » by Arthur Schnitzler

She had a gift denied to most Englishwomen—the genius for wearing clothes.
Extract from : « The Incomplete Amorist » by E. Nesbit

The aunt said, 'Charlotte, Miss Wade is wearing you to death, and this must not continue.'
Extract from : « Little Dorrit » by Charles Dickens

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