overweary
Americanadjective
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overweary
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
And such an oppressed, burdened and overweary Atlas was the 1.8 million group sharing the $10.2 billion load .
From Time Magazine Archive
I am overweary for the road; let Simwa find it.
From The Arrow-Maker A Drama in Three Acts by Austin, Mary Hunter
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 Tuttle, Hudson
How often, when she sat opposite me in the sewing-room, her hands dropped in her lap, and she went to sleep, like an overweary child.
From A Sister's Love A Novel by Heimburg, W.
Send me this good horse to the stables, sahib; I am overweary.
From Rung Ho! by Mundy, Talbot
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
And in the feeling that the worst was passed, the overwearied ones turned round, and fell placidly to sleep.
From Last Days of Pompeii by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
But Dale was quite composed now—she had gone through so many shocks already that one more or less seemed to make very little difference to her overwearied nerves.
From The Bat by Hopwood, Avery
He lit a candle and conducted me to my room, where, overwearied with the day's exertion, I soon fell asleep, and did not awake until the sun was shining brightly into my windows.
From Ten Nights in a Bar Room by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
In after-life, when overwearied, this part of the limb was very troublesome.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by Griffis, William Elliot
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
