wear on

1. 1.

   pass slowly (of time)

   “The day wore on”

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Questions about wear on

What does wear on mean?

wear on means "pass slowly (of time)".

Is wear on a common word?

wear on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.