"wear on" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wears on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wearing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wore on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "worn on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wear<,,wore,worn> on"
      },
      "expansion": "wear on (third-person singular simple present wears on, present participle wearing on, simple past wore on, past participle worn on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park, page 398",
          "text": "But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To irritate."
      ],
      "id": "en-wear_on-en-verb-yGERC~2K",
      "links": [
        [
          "irritate",
          "irritate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To irritate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "26 74",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "12 88",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Ben Bernanke, “The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression”, in Essays on the great depression, page 32",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion."
      ],
      "id": "en-wear_on-en-verb-nWsxWAyw",
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wear on"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (on)",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wears on",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wearing on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wore on",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "worn on",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "wear<,,wore,worn> on"
      },
      "expansion": "wear on (third-person singular simple present wears on, present participle wearing on, simple past wore on, past participle worn on)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Stephen L. Carter, The Emperor of Ocean Park, page 398",
          "text": "But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To irritate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "irritate",
          "irritate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To irritate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2000, Ben Bernanke, “The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression”, in Essays on the great depression, page 32",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 December 28, Owen Phillips, “Sunderland 0 - 2 Blackpool”, in BBC",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "persist",
          "persist"
        ],
        [
          "continue",
          "continue"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wear on"
}