to wear weary

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance. [1913 Webster]

2.To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. "Thus wore out night." --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Away, I say; time wears.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee.— Ex. xviii. 18.[1913 Webster]

His stock of money began to wear very low.— Sir W. Scott.[1913 Webster]

The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century.— Beaconsfield.[1913 Webster]

To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age.

To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on. --G. Eliot.

To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious employment, etc. [1913 Webster]