Wearying

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weary \Wea"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wearied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Wearying}.]
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     1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance
        of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with
        labor or traveling.


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              So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as
        by continuance.
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              I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak.
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     3. To harass by anything irksome.
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              I would not cease
              To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton.
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     {To weary out}, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
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     Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See {Jade}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wearying
       adj : producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was
             especially wearing" [syn: {exhausting}, {tiring}, {wearing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "wearying":
     boresome, boring, burdensome, draining, exhausting, fatiguesome,
     fatiguing, grinding, grueling, harsh, heavy, irksome, killing,
     onerous, oppressive, overburdensome, punishing, straining,
     stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring,
     toilsome, trying, tyrannous, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weighty,
     yawny