Dictionary entry

Weary (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Wea″ry, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Wearied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Wearying.]

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.

So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers. Shak.

2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as by continuance.

I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. Shak.

3. 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.