weary
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English wēriġ (“weary”), from Proto-West Germanic *wōrīg, *wōrag (“weary”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon wōrig (“weary”), Old High German wōrag, wuarag (“drunken”), Latvian vārgs (“weak”), Lithuanian vergas (“slave”), Latvian vergs (“slave”).
Inflected forms:
form: wearier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: weariest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: wearies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: wearying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: wearied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: wearied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
pos: adj
examples: A weary traveller knocked at the door.
I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
[I] am weary, thinking of your task.
There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
With the lift in the block still out of order, they climbed the flights and flights of steps. When Dad finally put the key in the front door, both were weary beyond words.
gloss: Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
pos: adj
examples: soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement;  I grew weary of studying and left the library.
[Henry Chang:] Could I persuade you to accept my hospitality until such time as you should grow weary of me?
[Shangai Lily:] I'm weary of you now.
gloss: Expressive of fatigue.
pos: adj
examples: He gave me a weary smile.
gloss: Causing weariness; tiresome.
pos: adj
examples: And now she was vppon the weary way,
There passed a weary time.
She had to dance all night without resting till break of day […] Old women supported her in the weary task, and they all danced together, arm in arm.
gloss: To make or to become weary.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.
His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.
Next morning, as I stood motionless and with heavy eyes at the helm—for I had not slept well—I began to weary anxiously for daylight, and peered towards the horizon, where I thought I observed something like a black cloud against the dark sky.
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.
Derived words: battle-weary
brain weary
dog-weary
drink-weary
no peace for the weary
no rest for the weary
shank-weary
war-weary
wearily
weariness
wearisome
wear weary
weary out
world-weary
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