Meanings
verbwear up (third-person singular simple present wears up, present participle wearing up, simple past wore up, past participle worn up)
present singular third person wears up · participle present wearing up · past wore up · participle past worn up
- intransitiveTo tire; to become tired
["']The horses soon wear up, or get diseased, and they come for another pair.' That," said Max, "is what he said in my hearing, and you can judge for yourself."
[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109
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