Grow tiresome
The crossword clue "Grow tiresome" is answered by WEAR, a 4-letter entry. Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
WEAR
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the WEAR answer page.
Used 9 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2022; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other answers for this clue
The same clue has also been answered these ways in the xd corpus. Answers inside this collection link to their own answer page.
- GETOLD (3 uses in xd)
Other clues for WEAR
Every other clue in this collection answered by WEAR, most used first.
- Have on - used 134 times, most recently in 2026
- Sport - used 70 times, most recently in 2026
- Put on - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Tear's partner - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Be dressed in - used 29 times, most recently in 2025
- Dress in - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
- Erode - used 20 times, most recently in 2025
- ___ and tear - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
- Become tiresome - used 15 times, most recently in 2024
- Sign of use - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
- Day-to-day deterioration - used 13 times, most recently in 2015
- Don - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Last. - used 12 times, most recently in 2002
- Become frayed - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Deterioration - used 9 times, most recently in 2019
- Wash-and-___ - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Become threadbare - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
- Deteriorate through use - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
- Fatigue - used 7 times, most recently in 1996
- Sign of age - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- Apparel - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
- __ away; erode - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
- "I haven't a thing to ___!" - used 6 times, most recently in 2024
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
- Grow weary - TIRE, used 122 times
- Grow dim - FADE, used 40 times
- Grow together - KNIT, used 30 times
- Tiresome person - BORE, used 28 times
- One to grow on? - ACRE, used 20 times
- Tiresome one - BORE, used 19 times
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