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Wear on

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To irritate. transitive

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

  2. 2
    pass slowly (of time) wordnet
  3. 3
    (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion. intransitive

    "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."

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