overweary

American  

[oh-ver-weer-ee, oh-ver-weer-ee] / ˈoʊ vərˈwɪər i, ˌoʊ vərˈwɪər i /

adjective

1. excessively weary; tired out.

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verb (used with object)

overwearied, overwearying

1. to weary to excess; overcome with weariness.

Etymology

Origin of overweary

First recorded in 1570–80; over- + weary

Example Sentences

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overweary overwearied

And such an oppressed, burdened and overweary Atlas was the 1.8 million group sharing the $10.2 billion load .

From Time Magazine Archive

It is one of the most complex and changeful conditions, ranging from the disturbed doze of the overweary, to the most sensitive clairvoyance.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle

Send me this good horse to the stables, sahib; I am overweary.

From Rung Ho! by Talbot Mundy

"Sahib," I said, considering his words as a cook tastes curry, "our men be overweary to have fight in them."

From Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

I am overweary for the road; let Simwa find it.

From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Mary Hunter Austin

The pneumonia of the shiftless, the tuberculosis of the overwearied struggler, the heart disease of the adventurer, no longer acted alone as our receiving agents.

From Time Magazine Archive

The tutor was overwearied with incessant struggles to keep the two from variance.

From Hubert's Wife A Story for You by Minnie Mary Lee

Nor will He allow me to get overwearied with vain efforts.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various

He was much calmer now, though overwearied with the strain of his many journeys.

From The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood

She had slept profoundly, overwearied with her pilgrimage, and soothed by that deep lulling sense of quiet which comes over one, when, after long and weary toils, some auspicious goal is at length reached.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862 by Various