wearing

English

Pronunciation

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Adjective

wearing (comparative more wearing, superlative most wearing)

1. intended to be worn
   • Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
2. causing tiredness
3. causing erosion

Translations

intended to be worn

• German: Tragen (de) n

causing tiredness

• Finnish: kuluttava (fi), uuvuttava (fi), väsyttävä (fi)

• Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (tsukareru)

causing erosion

• Finnish: kuluttava (fi)

Noun

wearing (plural wearings)

1. The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
2. The act by which something is worn.

   formal crown-wearings

3. That which is worn; clothes; garments.
   • Shakespeare

     Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

Translations

process of eroding or grinding

• Finnish: kuluminen (fi)

Verb

wearing

1. Present participle of wear.

Derived terms

• hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)