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wear

The origin and history of wear.

Etymology

From Old English werian ("to clothe, put on"), from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to dress." It was originally a regular verb but became irregular (wear/wore/worn) by analogy with verbs like "bear" and "tear."

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