wear

v

1. dress in, don, put on, slip into or on, get into, step into; display, show off, parade, flaunt, flourish, Inf. sport; bear, carry, exhibit, show, manifest, evince, reveal; assume, adopt.

2. impair, deteriorate, degenerate, worsen, canker, spoil; damage, harm, hurt, injure, ravage, ruin, destroy; corrode, fret, gnaw, eat out or away, consume, devour.

3. abrade, rub, rub down, chafe, fray, Inf. frazzle; file, grind, whet, sand, sandpaper, pumice; grate, rasp, scour, scrape, excoriate; erode, wash away, waste away, wear down or away; channel, gutter, groove, rut, furrow; waste, spend, use up; diminish, lessen, dwindle, shrink, decrease, reduce; abate, subside, ebb, wane.

4. fatigue, fatigate, tire, weary, overweary; bore, jade, exasperate, irritate, irk, vex, annoy; tax, overtax, strain, burden, overburden, overload, overtask, overwork, overwear; debilitate, enfeeble, weaken, enervate, sap, drain; deplete, wear out, exhaust, prostrate.

5.(all of time) pass, kill, wile away, dawdle away, piddle away, idle away.

6. last, endure, hold up, survive, continue, perdure, prove durable.

n

7. donning, wearing; use, usefulness, utility, utilization, exercise, employment; adhibition, application, appliance, service, serviceability, serviceableness.

8. clothing, clothes, wearables, garments, garb, dress, costume; apparel, attire, Both Chiefly Literary. raiment, vestments; habiliment, habit.

9. deterioration, wear and tear, wearing, wearing down or away, wasting away, atrophy, degeneration; worsening, depreciation, dilapidation, decomposition; abrasion, friction, rubbing down, chafing, fraying, grating, rasping, grinding, whetting, filing, scouring, scraping, excoriation; corrosion, gnawing, eating out or away, consumption; erosion, detrition, attrition, diminution, diminishing, dwindling, lessening, decrease, reduction.