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Weary   /wˈɪri/   Listen
adjective
Weary  adj.  (compar. wearier; superl. weariest)  
1.
Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. "I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary." "(I) am weary, thinking of your task."
2.
Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." "There passed a weary time."
3.
Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick; with of before the cause; as, weary of marching, or of confinement; weary of study.
Synonyms: Fatigued; tiresome; irksome; wearisome.



verb
Weary  v. t.  (past & past part. wearied; pres. part. wearying)  
1.
To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. "So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers."
2.
To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. "I stay too long by thee; I weary thee."
3.
To harass by anything irksome. "I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries."
To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
Synonyms: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade.



Weary  v. i.  To grow tired; to become exhausted or impatient; as, to weary of an undertaking.






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"Weary" Quotes from Famous Books



... stared an instant, turned her back, clasped the rail, and with her forehead on her arms laughed till Hugh was weary—not necessarily long. ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable

... cases, except that the terrible phenomena which we find it impossible to account for are on an infinitely larger scale, and in duration as ancient as the world? that they have, in fact, been going on for thousands of weary years, and for aught you or I can tell, and as Mr. Newman seems to think probable, for millions of years? Does not a pestilence or a famine send thousands of the guilty and the innocent alike—nay, thousands of those who know not ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers

... (alienate) forigi, forigxi. Weapon batalilo. Wear (use as clothes) porti. Wear away (decay by use) eluzi. Wear away (to decline) konsumigxi. Weariness enuo, laceco. Wearisome enua, enuiga. Weary, to enui. Weary laca, enua. Weather vetero. Weather, to kontrauxstari. Weathercock ventoflago. Weave teksi, plekti. Weaver teksisto, plektisto. Web (tissue) teksajxo. Wed (cf. marry) edzigxi. Wedding (cf. marry) edzigxo. Wedge kojno. Wedlock edzeco. Wednesday merkredo. Weed ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... must hate and death return? Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy! The world is weary of the past,— Oh might it die or ...
— Astronomy of To-day - A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language • Cecil G. Dolmage

... proposition in these my essays, to wit, that "every worthless man is a dead man." This notion is as old as Pythagoras, in whose school it was a point of discipline, that if among the Akoustikoi, * or probationers, there were any who grew weary of studying to be useful, and returned to an idle life, the rest were to regard them as dead, and upon their departing, to perform their obsequies and raise them tombs, with inscriptions, to warn others of the like mortality, and quicken them to resolutions ...
— Isaac Bickerstaff • Richard Steele


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