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Fearing vs Wearing - What's the difference?

fearing | wearing |

As verbs the difference between fearing and wearing

is that fearing is while wearing is .

As adjectives the difference between fearing and wearing

is that fearing is exhibiting fear while wearing is intended to be worn.

As a noun wearing is

the mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

fearing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Exhibiting fear.
  • Showing profound respect or deference.

    • Derived terms

    * god-fearing

    wearing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • intended to be worn
  • * Clothes used to be called wearing apparel
  • causing tiredness
  • * '>citation
  • causing erosion

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.
  • The act by which something is worn.
    • formal crown-wearings
  • That which is worn; clothes; garments.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Give me my nightly wearing and adieu.

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * hard-wearing (or hardwearing, hard wearing)