WEARY

a. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

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. Shak. [I] am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow.

2.
a.

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

3.
a.

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.

4.
v.

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. Shak.

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

To harass by anything irksome. I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.

7.
v.

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


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