wear on

verb2

1. •
   (chiefly of time) To persist or continue with increasing exhaustion.

   • As the hearing wore on, the foot-high stack of folders teetered on the edge of the table and finally dropped off. — 1986
2. •
   To irritate.

   • But his didacticism is beginning to wear on me, and I wonder if I am on a fool's errand. — 2007