wearing
(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,550 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,652 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) also: erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing away
- the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment also: wear she bought it for everyday wear
adjective
- producing exhaustion also: exhausting, tiring, wearying an exhausting marchthe visit was especially wearing
wearing in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Clothes were wearing out, bread was harder and harder to get.
The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories · Mark Twain · Chapter 1
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The Queen, a very beautiful young woman, wearing a wonderful lantern crown, sat on an ebony throne.
The Firelight Fairy Book · Henry Beston · Chapter 1
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Jurgen was wearing such a cross, through motives of sentiment, because it had once belonged to his dead mother.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice · James Branch Cabell · Chapter 1
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He was accompanied by an elderly man with long white mustaches, and wearing the rosette of the Legion of Honor.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Sleep, soldiers! still in honoured rest Your truth and valour wearing: The bravest are the tenderest,-- The loving are the daring.
Poems Every Child Should Know · Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth) [Editor] Burt · Chapter 1