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Synonyms for wear

Synonyms for wear: don and bear. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · verb · a wrong tile in 4 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for wear

Interchangeable with wear in this sense

Audited under wear's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one wear carries in that sense.

donverb, in the sense "put clothing on one's body"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name wear as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

bearbear is a verb in the sense "have on one's person"

one of these comes from wear's own entry in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.

The senseverbTier 1, FoothillsThe body

put clothing on one's body

What should I wear today?

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

don

Same sentence, swapped: What should I don today?

Close but different

Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.

bear
break
attire

Where wear turns up in the game

wear is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where wear is the trap

assumeverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is take, in the sense "take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect", so wear is there to be ruled out.
castverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is put, in the sense "formulate in a particular style or language", and wear is one of the three tiles that lose.
topnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cover, in the sense "covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)", and wear is on the board beside it.
assumeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is presume, in the sense "take to be the case or to be true", so wear is there to be ruled out.

Play wear

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so wear reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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Every word is an answer somewhere and a trap somewhere else

wear is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 4. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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