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— English words —

• wear v. To carry or have equipped on or about one’s body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
• wear v. To have or carry on one’s person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
• wear v. To bear or display in one’s aspect or appearance.
• wear v. (Colloquial, with "it") To overcome one’s reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
• wear v. To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce…
• wear v. (Intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed…
• wear v. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
• wear v. (Intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or…
• wear v. (Intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue…
• wear v. (Intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
• wear v. (Nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as…
• wear n. (Uncountable) (in combination) clothing.
• wear n. (Uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
• wear n. (Uncountable) fashion.
• wear v. (Now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
• wear v. (Now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
• wear v. (Now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
• wear v. (Now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
• wear n. Dated form of weir.
• Wear prop.n. A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham…
• -wear suff. Used to form nouns denoting clothing…

— English words, defined in Dutch —

• wear w. Dragen.
• wear w. Slijten.

— English words, defined in French —

• wear v. Porter (un vêtement).
• wear v. User, détériorer.
• wear v. (Sens figuré) (Wear an expression on one’s face) Arborer.
• wear n. Vêtements.
• wear n. Usure.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• wear v. Vestir, llevar o portar en el cuerpo.
• wear v. Desgastar.
• wear v. Fatigar.
• wear v. Conservar el color, forma, valor etc.
• wear s. La acción y efecto de vestir, o llevar o portar en el cuerpo.
• wear s. Conjunto de ropa, accesorios, dispositivos que se ponen o llevan en el cuerpo.
• wear s. Desgaste, fatiga.
• wear s. Durabilidad.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• wear s. Roupa.
• wear s. Desgaste.
• wear v. Usar, vestir.
• wear v. Gastar (pelo uso).

— English word, defined in Italian —

• wear s. Uso.

149 English words from 21 English definitions

about and and/or annoyance appearance approaching around aspect away bear become body bring bringing care carry carry␣on cause caused caution chiefly cities clothing colloquial combination conduct consistently consume consumed copulative counties County County␣Durham damage Dated decoration defend denoting deterioration dialectal diminish display drive drive␣off durable Durham east eat eat␣away eat␣away␣at endure England entering entry equipment equipped erode especially etc exhaust expend fashion fatigue fold form from gradual gradually guard guide habitually hard have impaired in␣one into Intransitive invasion irritation item item␣of␣clothing keep keep␣watch last maintain manner Nautical north nouns Now of␣an off one on␣or␣about onto other over overcome over␣time particular pass person phrase place prevent previously produce protect reduced reluctance remain repel retain river safety sailing sailing␣vessel situation slowly someone specified stern strength tack tediously the time to␣the transitive Tyne Tyne␣and␣Wear Uncountable under undergo use Used Used␣to usefulness value vessel ward ward␣off watch Wear wearing weary weir wind with

13 English words from 20 foreign definitions

color Conjunto etc expression face one Porter que Sens User Usure valor Wear

30 foreign words from 20 foreign definitions

accesorios acción Arborer Conservar cuerpo Desgastar Desgaste détériorer dispositivos Dragen efecto fatiga Fatigar figuré forma Gastar llevan llevar pelo ponen portar ropa Roupa Sens␣figuré Slijten Usar uso vestir vêtement Vêtements

102 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

weare Weare wears weary Weary Wearde weared wearer wearie wearin' wear␣on wear␣up Wearys wearers wearest weareth wearied wearier wearies wearily wearing Wearing wearish wear␣off wearout wear␣out wearable wear␣away Weardale wear␣down Wearhead weariest wearieth weariful wearings Wearings wearouts Wearside wears␣off wears␣out wear␣thin wearying weary␣out wearables wear␣horns weariable weariedly wearihood weariless weariness +52 words

203 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

aweary sweare swears sweary rewears swear␣at swear␣by sweared swearer sweares swearin' swear␣in swear␣on unweary answeare awearied beswears dog-weary forwears forweary miswears outwears outweary reswears re-swears swear␣box swearers swearest sweareth swearier swearily swearing swear␣jar swear␣off swear␣out swears␣in unswears warweary war-weary war␣weary answeares babywears footwears forswears headwears knitwears manswears misswears neckwears outswears +153 words

228 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

swear rewear armwear artwear bedwear beswear daywear dogwear earwear eyewear fanwear forwear gymwear legwear miswear outwear reswear re-swear sexwear skiwear sunwear topwear unswear usewear antiwear armywear babywear bikewear boatwear bodywear boyswear chefwear citywear clubwear cookwear divewear dogswear dorkwear edgewear facewear fallwear farmwear feetwear footwear forswear geekwear golfwear gothwear hairwear handwear +178 words

5 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ear EAR 'ear Wea WEA

2 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

AEW Rae

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

arew Awre Rawe ware Ware -ware

65 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

abrew adrew Arwel aware awner Carew cawer dewar Dewar drawe erwau Erway Ewart Grawe kewra lawer Mawer Mwera Narew Newar oware pawer rawed rawer Rawes Rawle resaw rewax sawer sewar sware swear tawer wader wafer wager Wager waker Waker waler Warde wared wares Wares warez warme Warne Warpe warre water +15 words

45 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Aer aer- aër- AEW are Are ARE Åre A.R.E. ARW awe Awe ear EAR 'ear eaw EAW era ERA erw ERW Rae raw Raw RAW R&AW rea Rea REA rew Rew Rwa RWA wae WAE war War WAR war- War. Wea WEA wer WER WRA

31 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bear Bear dear Dear fear Fear gear Gear hear jear Kear lear Lear mear near Near pear rear sear Sear tear weak weal wean weap weap. weer weir Weir whar year

12 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

ear EAR 'ear war War WAR war- War. Wea WEA wer WER

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