Tear vs. Wear

Tearverb

(transitive) To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate.

Tearverb

(transitive) To injure as if by pulling apart.

Tearverb

(transitive) To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional.

Tearverb

(transitive) To make (an opening) with force or energy.

Tearverb

To remove by tearing.

Tearverb

To demolish

Tearverb

(intransitive) To become torn, especially accidentally.

Tearverb

(intransitive) To move or act with great speed, energy, or violence.

Tearverb

(intransitive) To smash or enter something with great force.

Tearverb

(intransitive) To produce tears.

Tearnoun

A hole or break caused by tearing.

Tearnoun

(slang) A rampage.

Tearnoun

A drop of clear, salty liquid produced from the eyes by crying or irritation.

Tearnoun

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

Tearnoun

(glass manufacture) A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

Tearnoun

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

Tearnoun

A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.

Tearnoun

Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.

Tearnoun

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.

Tearnoun

A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.

Tearnoun

The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Tearverb

To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.

Tearverb

Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.

Tearverb

To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.

Tearverb

To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.

Tearverb

To move violently; to agitate.

Tearverb

To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.

Tearverb

To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.

Tearnoun

a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands;

Tearnoun

an opening made forcibly as by pulling apart;

Tearnoun

an occasion for excessive eating or drinking;

Tearnoun

the act of tearing;

Tearverb

separate or cause to separate abruptly;

Tearverb

to separate or be separated by force;

Tearverb

move quickly and violently;

Tearverb

strip of feathers;

Tearverb

fill with tears or shed tears;

Wearverb

To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

Wearverb

To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

Wearverb

To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.

Wearverb

To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.

Wearverb

To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.

Wearverb

(intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.

Wearverb

To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.

Wearverb

(intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.

Wearverb

(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.

Wearverb

To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.

Wearverb

(nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.

Wearverb

To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.

Wearverb

To defend; protect.

Wearverb

To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.

Wearverb

To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.

Wearnoun

(uncountable) (in combination) clothing

Wearnoun

(uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time

Wearnoun

(uncountable) fashion

Wearnoun

Same as Weir.

Wearnoun

The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

Wearnoun

The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.

Wearnoun

The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.

Wearverb

To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.

Wearverb

To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.

Wearverb

To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.

Wearverb

To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.

Wearverb

To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.

Wearverb

To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.

Wearverb

To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.

Wearverb

To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; - hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.

Wearverb

To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.

Wearnoun

impairment resulting from long use;

Wearnoun

a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

Wearnoun

the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment;

Wearverb

be dressed in;

Wearverb

have on one's person;

Wearverb

have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality;

Wearverb

deteriorate through use or stress;

Wearverb

have or show an appearance of;

Wearverb

last and be usable;

Wearverb

go to pieces;

Wearverb

exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;

Wearverb

put clothing on one's body;

Wear

Wear is the damaging, gradual removal or deformation of material at solid surfaces. Causes of wear can be mechanical (e.g., erosion) or chemical (e.g., corrosion).