wear

/weər/ verb (wore, worn)

Definition

A1 to have a piece of clothing, jewellery, etc. on your body: I wear jeans all the time. She wears glasses.

› to become thin and damaged after being used a lot, or to make this happen: The carpet is already starting to wear in places.

(Definition of wear verb from the Cambridge Essential Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

false, not real or not legal

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