wearing

adjectif

1. 1

   Intended to be worn.

   Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

2. 2

   Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.

   [The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

3. 3

   Causing erosion.

4. 4

   That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

   Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.

nom

1. 1

   The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

2. 2

   The act by which something is worn.

   formal crown-wearings

3. 3

   That which is worn; clothes; garments.

   Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

verbe

1. 1

   Aussi une forme de wearpresent participle and gerund of wear

Formes

pluriel

wearings

comparatif

more wearing

superlatif

most wearing