wear on

Definitions

1. 1

   To irritate.

   • But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand.
2. 2

   (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.

   • One possible reconciliation of the cross-section and time-series results is that actual wages paid fell relative to reported or official wage rates as the Depression wore on.
   • But as the second half wore on, Sunderland piled forward at every opportunity and their relentless pressure looked certain to be rewarded in the closing stages.

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