Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To weary out; exhaust by weariness; fatigue exceedingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To weary out.
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- verb transitive To
weary out.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tabby was slow in getting well; but she did not outweary the patience of her friends.
Emily Brontë 1900
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Even in so complex an effort as a visit to a picture gallery implies, she could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men.
George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884
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Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.
The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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What had he to fear from a powerless and impoverished Princess, whose misfortunes had already endured a sufficient time to outweary her foreign protectors; to subdue the hopes, and to exhaust the energies of her former adherents; and to reduce her to an insignificance of which, as her present measures sufficiently evinced, she had herself become despairingly conscious?
The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3 Julia Pardoe 1833
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Patience hath a long term, and we cannot outrun it, outweary it.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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a picture gallery implies, she could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men.
George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885
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