wear on
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand."
- "As the hearing wore on, the foot-high stack of folders teetered on the edge of the table and finally dropped off."
- "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."