[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.
      1913 webster

            thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this
            people that is with thee.             --ex. xviii.
                                                  18.
      1913 webster

            his stock of money began to wear very low. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

            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 

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