Clues for the word "WEAR"
We've had 174 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 539 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on September 28, 2025.
Definition of wear
- n. - Same as Weir.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
- v. t. - To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
- v. t. - To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - 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.
- n. - The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
- n. - The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
- n. - A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
- n. - A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
- n. - A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Referring Clues
- Wash's partner
- Use
- Become tiresome
- Don
- Become frayed
- Erode
- Prove durable
- Have on
- Day-to-day deterioration
- Rub down
- "I haven't a thing to ___!"
- Become threadbare
- Fray
- Depreciation consideration
- Grow tiresome
- Bit of fraying
- The ravages of time
- Sport
- Get tiresome
- Result of regular use
- Last under use or erode under use
- Deterioration
- Be dressed in
- Put on
- Tear's partner
- Gradual impairment
- Tax
- Tear partner
- Diminish, with "down"
- Last a long time
- Tear's mate
- Go around in
- Erosion
- Exhaust, with "out"
- Gradually disappear, with "off"
- Age, as tires
- "What Not to ___"
- Wash companion
- Deteriorate
- Deteriorate through use
- Apparel
- Have on, as a 32 Across
- Become tedious
- Be clad in
- Verb with "down" or "out"
- It goes with wash
- Tear companion
- Result of normal use
- Model, maybe
- Become weathered
- Verb with down or out
- Dress in
- Show off, as on a runway
- Lose effectiveness, as painkillers, with "off"
- Sign of use
- Durability
- Rock, in modern lingo
- Have on, as clothes
- Corrosion
- Be garbed in
- Time's sign
- Damage from use
- Be decked out in
- Hold up
- Undergo erosion
- Depreciation factor
- Sign of age
- Dress up in
- Gradual loss
- Deteriorate, or resist deterioration
- Be clothed in
- Thread bare
- Fray, e.g.
- Tear go-with
- Fade, maybe
- ___ and tear
- Be abrasive on
- Tear's partner?
- Abrade
- Tucker (out)
- Get old
- Sign of gradual use
- Common result of use
- Wash-and-___
- Hold up well
- Fading, fraying, etc.
- Gradual deterioration
- Clothing
- Common sign of age
- Fray, say
- Show signs of age
- Last
- Attire
- Be durable, or not
- ___ down, erode
- Sport (clothing)
- Clothing store suffix
- ____ and tear
- Don, as clothing
- "Tear" companion
- Clothing department suffix
- Cause of depreciation
- Grow threadbare
- Stand the test of time
- Sport or don
- Put on, as clothes
- ___ away (erode)
- Tear's companion
- Erosion caused by Sunderland's river
- Have on as clothing
- '03 Stone Temple Pilots song "All in the Suit That You ___"
- "You ___ It Well" Rod the Bod
- Timbuk 3 "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta ___ Shades"
- (Put on) clothing
- The attrition of war out East
- Due to use, a point needs attention
- We get a certain amount of warm clothing
- Northern river - sport
- Clothing to be seen at Sunderland
- Attritional war out East
- Stand for don
- Have on - deteriorate from constant use
- Have on - river
- River sport
- Durham's river - erosion
- Flower to put in buttonhole?
- Word that can mean "deteriorate" or "resist deterioration"
- Bring ship round in river
- Dress you and I are shortening
- Tolerate sport
- Put up with last clothing
- River Don?
- Conflict involving eastern river
- Erode resistance of upland under river
- Become frazzled
- Ravages of time
- We have a right to deteriorate
- Become tattered
- Damage from continuous use
- Get into
- Sport, as an outfit
- Ready-to-___
- Diminish slowly, with "off"
- Get all tattered
- Tire, with "out"
- Clothing found in Durham river
- Reason for depreciation
- Sport, as a sport coat
- Sport, in a way
- Get togged out in
- Northern river Don
- Corrode
- Indication of normal usage
- River flowing through Durham and Sunderland
- Tear's rhyming partner
- Partner of tear
- Damage from continued use
- Regular deterioration
- Sign of overuse
- Tire (out)
- Sign of aging
- Potential tire trouble
- Slip into
- Have on, as a jacket
- Rhyming partner of tear
- Grate (on)
- ___ and 54-Down (result of everyday use)
- Long-term damage
- Represent, as a designer at a fashion show
- Suffix for "street" or "sports"
- Ready-to-___ (off the rack)
- Can it smooth down a pointed ear?
- Fade, say
- Apt rhyme for tear
Last Seen In
- New York Times - September 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 18, 2025
- New York Times - September 12, 2025
- Evening Standard Easy - September 11, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 07, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 22, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - August 05, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 28, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2025
- New York Times - June 15, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 05, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 20, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 29, 2025
- LA Times - March 21, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 18, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2025
- USA Today - March 07, 2025
- LA Times - February 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - February 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 23, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - January 12, 2025
- LA Times - December 15, 2024
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 11, 2024
- Daily American - December 09, 2024
- Mirror Daily - November 27, 2024
- Daily American - November 26, 2024
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