[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wear \wear\, v. i.
   1. to endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear
      the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or
      attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence,
      sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as,
      a man wears well as an acquaintance.
      1913 webster

   2. to be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to
      suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to
      decay, or be spent, gradually. "thus wore out night."
      --milton.
      1913 webster

            away, i say; time wears.              --shak.
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            thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this
            people that is with thee.             --ex. xviii.
                                                  18.
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            his stock of money began to wear very low. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
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            the family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the
            century.                              --beaconsfield.
      1913 webster

   to wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of
      youth wear off with age.

   to wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on. --g. eliot.

   to wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long
      occupation, tedious employment, etc.
      1913 webster
see also:
to wear off to wear on to wear weary 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

wear \wear\, v. t. imp. wore w=or; p. p. worn
   w=orn; p. pr.  vb. n. wearing. before the 15th century
   wear was a weak verb, the imp.  p. p. being weared. oe.
   weren, werien, as. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or
   clothes; akin to ohg. werien, weren, to clothe, goth. wasjan,
   l. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, gr. "enny`nai, skr.
   vas. cf. vest.
   1913 webster
   1. to carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self,
      as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage,
      etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to
      wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
      1913 webster

            what compass will you wear your farthingale? --shak.
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            on her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
            which jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --pope.
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   2. to have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or
      manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
      "he wears the rose of youth upon him." --shak.
      1913 webster

            his innocent gestures wear
            a meaning half divine.                --keble.
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   3. to use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to
      consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes
      rapidly.
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   4. to impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition,
      scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually;
      to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
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            that wicked wight his days doth wear. --spenser.
      1913 webster

            the waters wear the stones.           --job xiv. 19.
      1913 webster

   5. to cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a
      channel; to wear a hole.
      1913 webster

   6. to form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
      1913 webster

            trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in
            the first essay, displeased us.       --locke.
      1913 webster

   to wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy,
      by gradual attrition or decay.

   to wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow
      decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.

   to wear on or to wear upon, to wear. obs. "i weared
      upon my gay scarlet gites gowns." --chaucer.

   to wear out.
      a to consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay;
          as, to wear out a coat or a book.
      b to consume tediously. "to wear out miserable days."
          --milton.
      c to harass; to tire. "he shall wear out the saints of
          the most high." --dan vii. 25.
      d to waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in
          military service.

   to wear the breeches. see under breeches. colloq.
      1913 webster
see also:
wore worn wearing weared vest to wear away 
to wear off to wear on to wear upon to wear out to wear the breeches 
breeches 

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