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[syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wearying
adj 1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit
was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring,
wearing, wearying]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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