Usually means: Used or adorned as clothing.
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  1. wore: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wore: Merriam-Webster
  3. wore, wore, wore: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wore: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wore: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wore, wore: Wordnik
  8. wore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WORE, wore: Wiktionary
  10. wore: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wore: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wore: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wore: Dictionary.com
  14. wore: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Wore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. wore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Wore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. wore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. wore: FreeDictionary.org
  21. wore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. wore: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. wore: Legal dictionary

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  1. wore: Encyclopedia

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  1. wore: Medical dictionary

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  1. WORE: Acronym Finder
  2. wore: Idioms

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  1. wore: Urban Dictionary

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verb:  (transitive) To have on:
verb:  To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
verb:  To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
verb:  To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
verb:  To erode:
verb:  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.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
verb:  To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
verb:  (intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
verb:  To endure:
verb:  (colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
verb:  (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.
verb:  (intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
verb:  (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.
noun:  (in combination) Clothing.
noun:  Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
noun:  Fashion.
noun:  Wearing.
verb:  (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
verb:  (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
verb:  (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
verb:  (now chiefly UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
noun:  A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its grand banks.
noun:  Dated form of weir. [An adjustable dam placed across a river to regulate the flow of water downstream.]
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