weary
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English wēriġ
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[edit] Adjective
weary (comparative wearier, superlative weariest)
- A feeling of being mentally fatigued.
- A weary traveller knocked at the door.
- Expressive of fatigue.
- He gave me a weary smile.
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- See also Wikisaurus:fatigued
[edit] Translations
feeling of being mentally fatigued
expressive of fatigue
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weary (third-person singular simple present wearies, present participle wearying, simple past and past participle wearied)
- To make or to become weary.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
[edit] Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:fatigue
