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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:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
Derivation:
weariness (temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they weary ... he / she / it wearies
Past simple: wearied
Past participle: wearied
-ing form: wearying
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
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)
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