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单词 wearing
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Definition of wearing in English:

wearing

adjective ˈwɛərɪŋˈwɛrɪŋ
  • Mentally or physically tiring.

    it would be a lot less wearing if we could work together amicably
    a plan of action will make the whole event a less wearing experience
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Asked if the lack of recuperation time between the seasons is a wearing experience, Foster gives a definitive yes.
    • Fishing the bigger French lakes can be physically wearing and damned hard work.
    • The comedy element of this comedy-thriller comes almost entirely from Trixie's spectacular destruction of the English language: it's the sort of verbal knockabout stuff that I love, but I can see how some people could find it wearing over an entire movie.
    • What might be a lot of fun at a rum-fuelled street party makes for a sometimes wearing experience in other contexts.
    Synonyms
    tiring, exhausting, wearying, fatiguing, enervating, draining, sapping, stressful, weary, crushing
    demanding, exacting, taxing, trying, challenging, burdensome, arduous, gruelling, punishing, grinding, onerous, difficult, hard, tough, heavy, laborious, back-breaking, crippling, strenuous, rigorous, uphill

Derivatives

  • wearingly

  • adverb
    • Elsewhere, she puns wearingly on phrases like ‘doing it’ and ‘coming’, like a demented 14-year-old boy.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the end, we were left with the unasked question: which are more wearingly tedious, secret loonies who try to walk through walls or whiny conspiracists who live to discover them?
      • It is wearingly self-indulgent in the way its author recounts every strategy, replays every achievement, extols every ally.

Rhymes

airing, ballbearing, bearing, Behring, Bering, caring, daring, fairing, file-sharing, hardwearing, pairing, paring, raring, sparing, Waring
 
 

Definition of wearing in US English:

wearing

adjectiveˈweriNGˈwɛrɪŋ
  • Mentally or physically tiring.

    it would be a lot less wearing if we could work together amicably
    a plan of action will make the whole event a less wearing experience
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The comedy element of this comedy-thriller comes almost entirely from Trixie's spectacular destruction of the English language: it's the sort of verbal knockabout stuff that I love, but I can see how some people could find it wearing over an entire movie.
    • Fishing the bigger French lakes can be physically wearing and damned hard work.
    • What might be a lot of fun at a rum-fuelled street party makes for a sometimes wearing experience in other contexts.
    • Asked if the lack of recuperation time between the seasons is a wearing experience, Foster gives a definitive yes.
    Synonyms
    tiring, exhausting, wearying, fatiguing, enervating, draining, sapping, stressful, weary, crushing
 
 
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