wearing

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wearing^¹

/ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/ UK
/ˈwɛːɹɪŋ/ British, Southern, Standard
/ˈwɛːɹɪŋɡ/ Midlands, Northern England, UK
/ˈwɜːɹɪŋɡ/ UK
/ˈweːɾɪŋɡ/ UK
/ˈweɾɪŋ/ Scotland, UK
/ˈwɛːɾɪŋ/ UK, Wales
/ˈweɹɪŋ/ US
/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/ US
/ˈweːɹɪŋ/ Australia
/ˈweəɹɪŋ/ New Zealand
/ˈwiəɹɪŋ/ New Zealand

Sounds like waring, Waring, whirring (fair–fur merger, wine–whine merger) · Rhymes with -ɛəɹɪŋ

adjective more wearing · most wearing

not comparable Intended to be worn. Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.
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.
Similar: draining, tiresome, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, tiring, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary
Causing erosion.
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.

noun wearings

The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
The act by which something is worn. formal crown-wearings
That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

verb

gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of wear

Wearing^²

Where it comes from

Variant of Waring.

proper noun Wearings

A surname.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: effortful, erosion, exhausting, tiring, eating away, eroding, wearing away, wearying, coating, lodging, carrying, containing, bearing, flying, port, seaport

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adj intended to be worn

Deutsch	Tragen
Italiano	indossare

adj causing tiredness

日本語	疲れる tsukareru

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@misc{wearing_2026,
  title = {wearing},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wearing},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}