The Collaborative International Dictionary
Weary \Wea"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wearied; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearying.]
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To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling.
So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
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To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.
I stay too long by thee; I weary thee.
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To harass by anything irksome.
I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries.
--Milton.To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See Jade.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of weary English)
WordNet
adj. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing]
Usage examples of "wearying".
There was something strangely exasperating, as well as strangely wearying, in these uncommanded evolutions.
It was Rosinante, wearying, I suppose, of the reflection of her own mild countenance, that drew me back from dream and disaster.
The United States was wearying of being the perpetual fallback stabilizer, especially since the Mideast equilibrium had dissolved into ultranationalist and water rights issues.
An assortment of poisons, disease vectors, gases, mechanical traps, mines, implants for personnel control, illustration of the use of a human bomb, tangler fields, plasticuffs, a wearying list of similar items with an exhaustive description of uses and capabilities.
I have been watching for smugglers for days and nights at a stretch, and it was very wearying.
On wearying wings, Buke climbed higher once more, following the Daru District's main avenue westward.
The very next morning she had an excellent violoncello, and, far from wearying me, each time she played she caused me a new and greater pleasure.
Ever hearkening to the sound of beauty, straining for the flash of its distant wings, he watches to follow, wearying his feet in travelling.
That manly bearing and days of wearying travel, of fruitless haggling had distracted her from contracts and netted her nothing more than a pair of indentured servants who were no couple.
Nor was she intimidated by him, and though a certain amount of intimidation was necessary in his chosen field, sometimes it was wearying.
More refusals would be met by a long and rather wearying speech listing the virtues of hot, grilled bread as a salubrious breakfast snack.