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wearingverbpresent participle of wear to use up all the physical energy ofthe job of running their own business wears them sometimes breaking, burning out, busting, doing in, doing up, draining, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, frazzling, harassing, killing, knocking out, outwearing, tiring, tuckering (out), washing out, wearing out, wearying debilitating, enervating, enfeebling, sapping, wasting, weakening wearing to a frazzle activating, energizing, invigorating, rejuvenating, strengthening, vitalizingrelaxing, resting, unwinding to damage or diminish by continued frictionall that walking every day wore the soles of my shoes very quickly abrading, chafing, corrading, eroding, fraying, frazzling, fretting, galling, rasping, rubbing filing, gnawing, grating, grazing, grinding, nibbling, sandblasting, sandpapering, scouring, scraping, scuffing, shavingerasing, reducing, rubbing out, wearing out, wiping (away)biting, breaking down, breaking up, chewing, corroding, decomposing, disintegrating, dissolving, eatinghoning, sharpening, whetting Britishto put up with (something painful or difficult)her marriage is so bad—I don't know how she wears it abiding, absorbing, accepting, bearing, biding(chiefly dialect), brooking, countenancing, enduring, going, hacking, handling, meeting, pocketing, standing, sticking out, stomaching, supporting, sustaining, sweating out, taking, tolerating allowing, permitting, suffering, swallowingreconciling (to)acquiescing, agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), respecting, submitting (to), yielding (to) living with, lumping (it), standing for, toughing it out declining, dismissing, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning, turning downcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting, opposing, resistingavoiding, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, eluding, escaping, evading, missingabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from) in the 15th century |