wore

Verb

wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore or (obsolete) ware, past participle worn or (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore or (obsolete) worne)

1. (transitive) To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, perfume, etc.
   • He's wearing some nice pants today.
2. (transitive) To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
   • He wears eyeglasses.
3. (transitive) To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
   • She wore a smile all day.
4. 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.
   • You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.
5. (copulative, intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
   • The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
6. To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
   • His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.

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Verb (1)

ware (third-person singular simple present wares, present participle waring, simple past and past participle wared)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) To be ware or mindful of something.
   • Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː
2. (obsolete) To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.
   • Ware thee.

Verb (2)

ware

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
   • Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum...1684, Historical Notices of Scotish Affairs, Selected from the Manuscripts of John Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart., One of the Senators of the College of Justice, volumes second (1683–1688), Edinburgh...

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