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To wear someone down one tiny grievance at a time, like emotional sandpaper.
means To irritate or bother someone, usually in small, repetitive, persistent ways.
from From Old French 'anoier,' itself from a Latin phrase 'in odio'—'in hatred'—as in something that puts you in a hateful mood.
Latin rootShares ancestry with 'odious' and 'ennui'
Mild by designImplies persistent nagging, not sudden fury
Noun cousin'Annoyance' once meant a literal nuisance harm