wore

CEFRA1

/wɔː/

verb

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Examples

I wore out two pairs of jogging shoes last year.
In the days of the knights, they wore shields to protect themselves from sword-fight wounds.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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She wore a badge saying ‘Vote for Coates’.
Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore[…]
Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé[…]

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The word in print, with each source given in full.

Crim. No, though I loſe that Head which I before / Deſign'd ſhould the Morocco-Crown have wore[…]
1673, Elkanah Settle, The Empress of Morocco […] , William Coleman, act III, page 19
Some of the greatest scholars, politicians, and wits, that ever Europe produced, have wore the habit of an abbé[…]
1824, Tobias Smollett, The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, M.D., volume VII, page 125
But he wore surgical gloves when we had sex, I mean if we had had a body condom he would have wore it and he'd go wash immediately.
1997 August 4, Patricia A Lather, Christine S Smithies, Troubling The Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS, Hachette UK, →ISBN, page 138

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