wear up
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[edit]wear up (third-person singular simple present wears up, present participle wearing up, simple past wore up, past participle worn up)
- (intransitive) To tire; to become tired
- [1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109:
- ["']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."