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adjective

Weary adj. (compar. wearier; superl. weariest)

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."

Causing weariness; tiresome. "Weary way." "There passed a weary time."

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)

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."

To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance. "I stay too long by thee; I weary thee."

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

... to their united hum, the old man paused, looking at first a little distraught, but settling at last into his usual self as he started forward upon his course. Did some whisper, hitherto unheard, warn him that it was the last time he would tread that weary round? Who can tell? He was trembling very much when with his task nearly completed, he stepped out again into the main hall and crept rather than walked back to the one great clock to whose dictum he made it ...

— The Golden Slipper • Anna Katharine Green

... addressed the outpourings of his gushing muse. He read his favourite poems over and over again, he called upon Alma Venus the delight of gods and men, he translated Anacreon's odes, and picked out passages suitable to his complaint from Waller, Dryden, Prior, and the like. Smirke and he were never weary, in their interviews, of discoursing about love. The faithless tutor entertained him with sentimental conversations in place of lectures on algebra and Greek; for Smirke was in love too. Who could help it, being in daily intercourse with ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... hunters to range the country just beyond the Horse Prairie, had likewise his share of adventures with the all-pervading Blackfeet. At one of his encampments the guard stationed to keep watch round the camp grew weary of their duty, and feeling a little too secure, and too much at home on these prairies, retired to a small grove of willows to amuse themselves with a social game of cards called "old sledge," which is as popular among these trampers of the prairies as whist or ecarte ...

— The Adventures of Captain Bonneville - Digested From His Journal • Washington Irving

... appeared respectable, while at the same time sorely pinched for food. The employment given in this factory is all that stands between many households and actual want. The machines here are not run by steam, but by foot power. I noticed weary limbs that were beating time to work! work! work! Mrs. Binns, a kind motherly woman, spoke earnestly of the industry, trustworthiness, self-denial, loyal affection for parents, and general kindliness that characterized ...

— The Letters of "Norah" on her Tour Through Ireland • Margaret Dixon McDougall

... asthma was a beast that always growled in the background; he never knew when it would spring upon him with a roar. Breakfast pacified the brute; hot coffee always did; but the effects soon wore off, and the boy was oppressed again, yet deadly weary, long before it was time for him ...

— The Camera Fiend • E.W. Hornung

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