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How to pronounce wearing in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms wear
Type of human action, human activity, deed, act
Derivation wear
Type Words
Synonyms eating away, eroding, erosion, wearing away
Type of geological process, geologic process
Has types beach erosion, chatter mark, corrasion, deflation, detrition, abrasion, ablation, attrition, planation, soil erosion
Type Words
Synonyms exhausting, tiring, wearying


the visit was especially wearing.

Examples of wearing

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He provided a description of the suspect, including what clothes he was wearing.
From the thenewstribune.com
He was wearing jeans, a black jacket, black sneakers, glasses and a red ballcap.
From the orlandosentinel.com
David Carey pointed to one of his players wearing a sleeve wrap like in the NBA.
From the denverpost.com
She now peeks under the folds to see who is wearing red and who is wearing blue.
From the washingtontimes.com
He was smiling and wearing a headset on the sidelines during the second quarter.
From the washingtontimes.com
John has started wearing some padding on his knee, where he has a torn meniscus.
From the stltoday.com
Ben Hansbrough started making decisions like maybe the Red Bull was wearing off.
From the kentucky.com
I can recount whole conversations verbatim and even remember what I was wearing.
From the charlotteobserver.com
The actors aren't wearing condoms and could be spreading diseases including HIV.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Erosion: (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
  • Exhausting: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
  • Wear: the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear"
  • (wear) be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that day"
  • (wear) impairment resulting from long use; "the tires showed uneven wear"
  • (wear) clothing: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
  • Wearing is a surname, and may refer to: * Alison Wearing (born 1967), Canadian writer * Ben Wearing (born 1989), Australian football player * Benny Wearing (1901-1968), Australian rugby league player * Clive Wearing (bon 1938), British musicologist * Gillian Wearing (born 1963), English ...
  • (A Wear) A|Wear is an Irish chain of clothing stores that operates in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and more recently in the United Kingdom.
  • (Wear) In materials science, wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another surface. It is related to surface interactions and more specifically the removal of material from a surface as a result of mechanical action. ...