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Wearing vs Warring - What's the difference?

wearing | warring |

As adjectives the difference between wearing and warring

is that wearing is intended to be worn while warring is engaged in war; belligerent.

As nouns the difference between wearing and warring

is that wearing is the mechanical process of eroding or grinding while warring is the act of engaging in war or conflict.

As a verb wearing

is .

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)

    warring

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • engaged in war; belligerent
  • Antonyms

    * peaceful

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of engaging in war or conflict.
  • * 1842 , The Church of England Magazine (volume 13, page 189)
  • Worn out and wearied with the endless warrings of virulent sectarians
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