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Wearing

//ˈwɛɹɪŋ// adj, name, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Intended to be worn. not-comparable

    "Clothes used to be called wearing apparel."

  2. 2
    Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.

    "[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. 3
    Causing erosion.
  4. 4
    That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

    "Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces."

Adjective
  1. 1
    producing exhaustion wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  2. 2
    the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment wordnet
  3. 3
    The act by which something is worn.

    "formal crown-wearings"

  4. 4
    (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively wordnet
  5. 5
    That which is worn; clothes; garments.

    "Give me my nightly wearing and adieu."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of wear form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Variant of Waring.

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