wearing

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĕrʹĭng, IPA^(key): /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
• Homophones: waring, Waring

Adjective

wearing (comparative more wearing, superlative most wearing)

1. intended to be worn

   Clothes used to be called wearing apparel

2. causing tiredness
   • 2014 August 17, Jonathan Beckman, “Chasing Lost Time: the Life of C K Scott Moncrieff, Soldier, Spy and Translator by Jean Findlay, review, pp. R24–R25]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review)‎^[1]:

     [The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

3. causing erosion

Translations

intended to be worn

• German: Tragen (de) n
• Italian: indossare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Ukrainian: носіння одягу (nosinnja odjahu)

causing tiredness

• Finnish: kuluttava (fi), uuvuttava (fi), väsyttävä (fi)
• Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (tsukareru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Maori: whakahōhā
• Ukrainian: стомливий (stomlyvyj)

causing erosion

• Finnish: kuluttava (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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.
   • (Can we date this quote by Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

Translations

process of eroding or grinding

• Finnish: kuluminen (fi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Verb

wearing

1. present participle of wear

Derived terms

• hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)

Anagrams

• Wareing, Wiganer, Winegar