The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word ABRASION
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More clues leading to the result ABRASION
- Wearing an undergarment upside down is working
- Scrape in a bar so after an exchange
- Supporters one charged after a scrape
- When accepting support, naval lieutenant raised friction
- Wearing a form of support around one’s leg
- Chafing from one undergarment is no trouble
- Slight injury of a supporter is no different
- A supporter’s on about one sign of injury
- Wearing an undergarment, is standing no rejecting
- One getting support, Italian agreement about process of wearing down
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The straight part
We know that "Wearing" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case wearing = abrasion.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does ABRASION mean?
ABRASION noun- The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
- The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
- The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
- An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
- A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
- The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.