weary
/ˈwɪɚi/ verb C2- To make or to become weary.
He/she/it wearies · Past wearied · Past participle wearied · -ing form wearying
Verb forms
- Base form
- weary
- He/she/it
- wearies
- Past
- wearied
- Past participle
- wearied
- -ing form
- wearying
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below.
Last we drew rein--a weary three--
A MULE, frolicsome from lack of work and from too much corn, galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: “My father surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and spirit.” On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them.
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