wear on

verb

1. To irritate.

   “But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand.”

2. (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.

   “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.”