"wear as a badge of honor" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: wears as a badge of honor [present, singular, third-person], wearing as a badge of honor [participle, present], wore as a badge of honor [past], worn as a badge of honor [participle, past]
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  1. (transitive) Defiantly reinterpret (something said) to be negative about oneself as positive. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-wear_as_a_badge_of_honor-en-verb-iCnbHH-k Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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