# wearing

Pronunciation: say "WAIR-ing" US /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/, UK /ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of wear. — present participle and gerund of wear
   - Simple: Present participle and gerund of wear. Use this for an action happening now or as the -ing noun form.
   - _Wearing a seatbelt is required by law in every state._
   - _The actor was wearing a heavy costume under the stage lights._

## Adjective

2. Causing tiredness or steadily testing a person's patience.
   - Simple: Making someone feel tired or annoyed over time.
   - _Endless small interruptions make office work strangely wearing._
   - _She found the wearing demands of caregiving harder than the job itself._
4. Meant or intended to be put on the body, as clothing is.
   - Simple: Meant to be put on the body, like clothes.
   - _The catalog lists wearing apparel under its own heading._
   - _Customs officers waved through her personal wearing apparel._
5. Subject to deterioration through use, and liable to wear out eventually.
   - Simple: Becoming damaged or thinner from being used a lot, and able to break down over time.
   - _Engineers inspect the wearing components of the machine for fatigue._
   - _The bridge's wearing surface was resurfaced after years of heavy traffic._
8. Causing erosion; tending to grind a surface away.
   - Simple: Slowly rubbing away at a surface and breaking it down.
   - _The wearing force of the tide gradually undercut the sea wall._
   - _Blowing sand has a relentless wearing effect on the carvings._

## Noun

3. Clothing or garments considered as a whole; items put on the body.
   - Simple: Clothing, or the things that people put on.
   - _The family's wearing hung on pegs by the cottage door._
   - _He spent his savings on fine wearing and little else._
6. The act of putting on or having something on the body.
   - Simple: The act of having clothes or other things on your body.
   - _The wearing of a uniform helps the team look united._
   - _Frequent wearing of high heels can strain the feet._
7. The mechanical process by which a surface is eroded or ground down.
   - Simple: Slowly rubbing or grinding something away, bit by bit.
   - _The constant wearing of the current rounded the boulders in the gorge._
   - _Friction caused steady wearing along the edge of the gear._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/wearing (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).