Usually means: Continue or persist despite difficulties.
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  1. wear on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wear on: Merriam-Webster
  3. wear on: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wear on: Vocabulary.com
  5. wear on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. wear on: Wiktionary
  7. wear on: Dictionary.com
  8. wear on: Rhymezone
  9. wear on: FreeDictionary.org
  10. wear on: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. wear on: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. wear on: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (wear on)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To irritate.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.

Similar:
wear, get on someone's nerves, irritate, grate, abrade, get under someone's skin, worry, annoy, grig, grind one's gears, more...

Opposite:
preserve, maintain, conserve, protect

Types:
leather, suede, nubuck, canvas, rubber, patent leather, leather-and-rubber, more...

Phrases:
wear heart on sleeve, wear one's heart on one's sleeve, wear ones heart on ones sleeve, to wear on, wear your heart on your sleeve, more...

Adjectives:
timeworn, shattered, wearing, well-worn, gutted, wallow, aging, harsh, obliterated, lacerate, warworn

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Similar:
wear, get on someone's nerves, irritate, grate, abrade, get under someone's skin, worry, annoy, grig, grind one's gears, more...

Opposite:
preserve, maintain, conserve, protect

Types:
leather, suede, nubuck, canvas, rubber, patent leather, leather-and-rubber, more...

Phrases:
wear heart on sleeve, wear one's heart on one's sleeve, wear ones heart on ones sleeve, to wear on, wear your heart on your sleeve, Effects of long-term contact lens wear on the cornea, more...

Adjectives:
timeworn, shattered, wearing, well-worn, gutted, wallow, aging, harsh, obliterated, lacerate, warworn



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