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wear English

Meaning wear meaning

What does wear mean?
Definitions in simple English

wear

When you wear something, you put it on your body and cover your body with it. I don't wear shoes on my feet when I am inside. She wore a red dress. When something wears, it gets damaged, over time. The car was worn from ten years of hard driving. My best leather shoes wore out from all the walking. The young girl wore her mother down.

wear

Things show wear after being used for a long time. The old school was starting to show wear after one hundred years.

wear

be dressed in She was wearing yellow that day (= bear) have on one's person He wore a red ribbon bear a scar have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality He always wears a smile have or show an appearance of wear one's hair in a certain way (= wear out) deteriorate through use or stress The constant friction wore out the cloth last and be usable This dress wore well for almost ten years (= 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 impairment resulting from long use the tires showed uneven wear (= wearing) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment she bought it for everyday wear (= break, wear out, fall apart) go to pieces The lawn mower finally broke The gears wore out The old chair finally fell apart completely a covering designed to be worn on a person's body (= tire) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress We wore ourselves out on this hike

Synonyms wear synonyms

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Topics wear topics

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Conjugation wear conjugation

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wear · verb

Examples wear examples

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Simple sentences

I don't have to wear glasses any more.
Why don't you want to wear a tie?
I wear flannel pajamas.
Why don't you wear a dress?
Please, don't wear this lipstick again.
I wear short-sleeve shirts in the summer.
I used to wear glasses.
Tom didn't want to wear the shirt that his mother had gotten him for Christmas.
As a child, I'd only wear trousers.
Do you really want to wear that?
Tom used to wear glasses.
Tom is unable to decide which shirt he should wear.
Always wear a helmet when you're riding.
What size shoes do you wear?
Young people wear their hair long these days.
Why don't you wear summer clothes?
You can wear your undershirt.
Drivers should wear seat belts.
Good leather will wear for years.
It's best to wear a cap on your head during the cold Moscow winters.
What are you going to wear to the party?
Wear what clothes you please.
Everybody is supposed to wear a tie at the party.
You need to wear a tie there.
What sort of jewelry are you going to wear with this dress?
It's not what you wear, it's how you wear it.
You can wear my scarf as long as you don't spill anything on it.
I always wear boots when it rains or snows.
It's a hassle trying to decide what to wear to the party.
New York City policemen wear dark blue uniforms.
Tires wear down because of friction between the rubber and the road surface.

Movie subtitles

Would you like to wait a bit? I'll bring Yoon's clothes, wanna wear that?
Young Master told me to wear it from today onwards.
I thought you weren't supposed to wear white to a wedding.
Good-bye, Josh thong that I never wo. I don't wear thongs.
So you kids can go crazy with your halters and your sheaths and your cutouts, and I will wear a dress fit to upholster a chair.
And I will wear it with pride.
Wear lingerie? Climb up here.
Is that the Santa suit that my mother used to wear?
You can't wear ice blue Lurex to a week night supper date.
I hope you're going to be allowed to wear these in the garden later.
Suffice to say it's not a perfume anybody's maiden aunt would wear.
You don't get many opportunities in life to wear a train.
You need to wear it for a few hours each day, then report back to me with regard to comfort and the snugness of the fit.
I will wear your costume, but only if you promise to stop micromanaging my first gay Halloween.
I'm proud to wear it.
Well, boys don't wear bras.
Did he wear a crown?
Why do you wear men's clothing?
If we give you women's clothing, would you wear it?
That's a costume I could wear.
You wear a costume in it.
Put them on. You wear them.
The clothes I could wear.
I used to wear it.
Why do rich men on the west side wear ties but workers don't? Step right up, folks.
Why don't workers wear ties?
Why do rich men on the west side wear ties but workers don't?
You get to wear my crown.
I can show you, but you must wear this.
Why did you wear these?
A normal person wearing these will wear the leather.
Wear this.
I don't wear thongs.
I wear the same outfit every single day.
Okay, like, like, like, I want to wear a forest green tux.

News and current affairs

One hopes that it changes course soon, before we all are forced to wear swimsuits to work.
Even simple requests, like that of schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political significance and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government.
It is not uncommon for one sister to wear a headscarf while another does not, or a mother to wear a headscarf while her daughters do not.
Different women wear the headscarf for different reasons.
Some wear it out of habit or for traditional reasons rather than religious ones.
Not all women wear a headscarf because of religious conservatism.
NEW DELHI - It is not often that I get to wear two hats at once.
Sharia law was applied; women who were never forced to do so before had to wear the veil.
It is like saying that people are more likely to drive dangerously if they wear a seat belt; in fact, the opposite is more often the case.
Straw defended women's right to wear less intrusive headscarves; yet he also argued that something is seriously wrong when, in conversation with another person, one cannot engage in face-to-face interaction.
Straw was saying that to wear the nijab is a decision to close yourself off from everyone around you.
Some argued that, in suggesting to Muslim women what they should wear, Straw was interfering with religious freedom.
So long as other ways are available for Muslim women to cover their heads, agreeing not to wear the nijab is a way of signifying one's membership in a liberal society at minimal cost to one's religious commitments.
The patience even of free traders will wear thin in 2010.
Unless Syria's rulers, like other leaders in the Arab world, begin to appreciate that freedom is a fundamental human right, even the most quiescent people's patience may wear dangerously thin.
He was even the first Chinese leader to wear a suit and tie rather than a Mao habit when traveling abroad, as well as the first to hold an open press conference.
One is seen not just in acts of religious extremism, but also in the desire of religious people to wear their faith as a badge of identity in opposition to those who are different.
But, before any public debate could occur, the AKP decided to amend only two articles of the constitution, in order to allow female university students to wear headscarves on campus.
Modern European populists don't wear black shirts, or indulge in street violence.
But the soldiers who wear them should be Sunni Arabs and Turks, not Americans.

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