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WEARY

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Irregular inflected forms: wearied    , wearier    , weariest   

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Physically and mentally fatigued

Example:

'aweary' is archaic

Synonyms:

aweary; weary

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

Derivation:

weariness (temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "weary" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weary"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam wants to weary with Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "weary" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "weary"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Credits

 Context examples: 

It is not really long, in weeks or months; but, in my usage and experience, it is a weary, weary while.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The danger would have been of my wearying you.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Wearied from the night of struggle and wreck, all hands were yet asleep, I thought.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They were dead, and I lived; their murderer also lived, and to destroy him I must drag out my weary existence.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And as they were so weary that their legs would carry them no longer, they lay down beneath a tree and fell asleep.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They are likewise of special use to husbands and wives who are grown weary of their mates; to eldest sons, to great ministers of state, and often to princes.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After a long and weary journey, we alighted at a small station some miles from Chatham.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But his mind wearied quickly, and he was content to go back to his chair and doze.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have looked across the ha-ha till I am weary.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)