Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tired; fatigued; exhausted with exertion.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
weary .
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- adjective exhausted
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Examples
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Warren leaned back against the wall of the rude cabin wearied from the long nervous strain, but listening intently to all that passed.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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One afternoon when I crept into this haven, wearied from the feast of sight and sound, a slender, dusky-skinned Ceylonese offered me a cup of fragrant tea.
Art and Handicraft in the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 1894
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Then she wandered to her bookshelves, glancing aimlessly over the books; but the very reading of the titles wearied her.
A Love Episode ��mile Zola 1871
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No wonder if the energies which owed much of their strength to love's nerving, should at last give out, and Fleda's evening be passed in wearied slumbers.
Queechy 1854
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(her to cold; in short, wearied with remonstrances, her patience failed, and she declared in pretty) Tj
Drelincourt and Rodalvi; or, Memoirs of Two Nobel Families Byron 1807
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Many years of living face to face with sheep on their own terms wearied Dry Valley Johnson.
Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886
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At the time she was an atheist who was "wearied" by religion and "worn out by years of struggle."
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It is apparently intended to enhance the idea of utter weariness, either because the word 'wearied' is in thought to be supplied, 'sat, being thus wearied, on the well'; or because it conveys the notion which might be expressed by our 'just as He was'; as a tired man flings Himself down anywhere and anyhow, without any kind of preparation beforehand, and not much caring where it is that he rests.
Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868
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"wearied," as I had arrived early in the afternoon, and could not out of politeness retire and write to you.
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His face is sweaty, his countenance is wearied, and I can easily see that he's skipped a few meals.
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