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wear upon

v. exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue] [ant: refresh]

Usage examples of "wear upon".

If we were not with you, nor the collar you wear upon your neck, you would be drawn into the closest of them, probably that rainforest there, to live out your span triple-timed.

So thus as she came to and fro she was so hot in her love that she besought Sir Launcelot to wear upon him at the jousts a token of hers.

And there, standing in the full moonlight in the courtyard, I perceived Good, adorned with an enormous ostrich feather head-dress and a flowing silken cloak, which it is the right thing to wear upon these occasions, and shouting out the abominable song which he and the old gentleman had evolved, to a jerky, jingling accompaniment.