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wear
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to clothe, cover over; put on, wear, use; stock (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *wa?jan, from Proto-Germanic *wazjan? (“to clothe”), from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to dress, put on (clothes)”).
Cognate to Sanskrit ????? (váste), Ancient Greek ?????? (hénnumi, “put on”), Latin vestis (“garment”) (English vest), Albanian vesh (“dress up, wear”), Tocharian B wäs-, Old Armenian ??????? (zgenum), Welsh gwisgo, Hittite ????????- (waš-).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /w??/
- (General American) enPR: w?r, IPA(key): /w??(?)/, [w??], [w??]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophones: ware, where (in accents with the wine-whine merger), were (some dialects)
Verb
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore, past participle worn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore)
- To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
- It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
- To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
- To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
- (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
- To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
- (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
- 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion
- The family that had raised it wore out in the earlier part of this century
- 1880, Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion
- To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
- His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.? Toil and care soon wear the spirit.? Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win.
- (intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
- (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
- (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
- (nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
- Synonym: gybe
Derived terms
Related terms
- vest
Translations
See also
- don
- put on
Noun
wear (uncountable)
- (uncountable) (in combination) clothing
- footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear
- (uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing.
- 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
- (uncountable) fashion
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:wear.
Related terms
- wear and tear
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English weren, werien, from Old English werian (“to guard, keep, defend; ward off, hinder, prevent, forbid; restrain; occupy, inhabit; dam up; discharge obligations on (land)”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjan, from Proto-Germanic *warjan? (“to defend, protect, ward off”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to close, cover, protect, save, defend”).
Cognate with Scots wer, weir (“to defend, protect”), Dutch weren (“to aver, ward off”), German wehren (“to fight”), Swedish värja (“to defend, ward off”), Icelandic verja (“to defend”).
Alternative forms
- wer, weir (Scotland)
Verb
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past weared or wore, past participle weared or worn)
- (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
- (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
- (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
- to wear the wolf from the sheep
- (now chiefly Britain dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
Etymology 3
Noun
wear (plural wears)
- Dated form of weir.
Anagrams
- -ware, Awre, Ware, arew, ware
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frazzle
English
Etymology
Originally an East Anglian word. Either from a variant of the now obsolete fazle (“to unravel”), altered due to influence from fray, or from a blend of fazle and fray. fazle comes from earlier fasel, which was inherited from Middle English facelyn (“[of the end of a rope, or of cloth] to unravel”). Middle English facelyn was a verbal derivative of the noun fasylle (“frayed edge”), which was in turn a derivative (with the diminutive suffix -el) of Old English fæs (“fringe, border”), from Proto-West Germanic *fas, from Proto-Germanic *fas?n.
Related to German Faser (“fibre”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fræzl?/
- Rhymes: -æz?l
Verb
frazzle (third-person singular simple present frazzles, present participle frazzling, simple past and past participle frazzled)
- (transitive) To fray or wear down, especially at the edges.
- 1887, Joel Chandler Harris, Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches
- Her hair was of a reddish-gray color, and its frazzled and tangled condition suggested that the woman had recently passed through a period of extreme excitement.
- 1887, Joel Chandler Harris, Free Joe and Other Georgian Sketches
- (transitive) To drain emotionally or physically.
- (transitive) to burn
Noun
frazzle (plural frazzles)
- (informal) A burnt fragment; a cinder or crisp.
- The bacon was burned to a frazzle.
- (informal) The condition or quality of being frazzled; a frayed end.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous Chapter III
- My fingers are all cut to frazzles.
- 1886-90, John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History
- Gordon had sent word to Lee that he "had fought his corps to a frazzle.
- 1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous Chapter III
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