Experience
Experience verb - To come to a knowledge of (something) by living through it.
Wear and experience are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wear" instead a verb "Experience".
Wear
Wear verb - To use up all the physical energy of.
Experience and wear are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Experience" instead a verb "Wear".
How words are described
| high | high experience | high wear |
| full | full experience | full wear |
| normal | normal experience | normal wear |
| actual | actual experience | actual wear |
| Other adjectives: real, little, new, less, military, extra, accumulated. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- The bartender showed up again in the next episode, hitting on the main character, no worse for wear and even joking about the experience.
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There's an item which allows you to give one person on the bench a full complement of experience (but no Customization Points), but no one likes to wear it.
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The commercial shows the kid then patting the pig on the back, it having apparently come out of the experience no worse for the wear.
Source: Cue the Flying Pigs
Cite this Source
Wear and Experience. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/wear
Experience & Wear. N.p., 2016. Web. 07 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/wear>.
Wear or Experience. 2016. Accessed August 07, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/experience/wear.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "experience" and "wear" have occurred on timeline