• (GA) enPR: wĕrʹĭng, IPA: /ˈwɛɹɪŋ/
• (RP) IPA: /ˈwɛəɹɪŋ/

wearing

1. intended to be worn

   Clothes used to be called wearing apparel

2. causing tiredness
3. causing erosion

• German: Tragen
• Italian: indossare

wearing (plural wearings)

1. The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
2. The act by which something is worn.

   formal crown-wearings

3. That which is worn; clothes; garments.
   • c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene iii]:

     Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

1. present participle of wear#English|wear