WEAR UPON

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does wear upon mean? 

• WEAR UPON (verb)
  The verb WEAR UPON has 1 sense:

1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

  Familiarity information: WEAR UPON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAR UPON (verb)

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

weary; wear upon; wear out; wear down; tire out; fag out; tire; outwear; jade; fatigue; fag; wear

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "wear upon" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (get tired of something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "wear upon"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody