wear upon

Questions about wear upon

What does wear upon mean?

wear upon means "exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress".

What is another word for wear upon?

Close synonyms include tire, tire out, wear, weary, jade. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wear upon a common word?

wear upon 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.