Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To weary utterly; tire out.
  • To become wearied.
  • Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To weary extremely; to dispirit.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, obsolete To weary utterly; tire out.
  • verb intransitive, obsolete To become wearied.
  • adjective obsolete Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- +‎ weary.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English forwery, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) +‎ weary.

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