war-weary
[wawr-weer-ee]
- utterly exhausted and dejected by war, especially after a prolonged conflict.
- (of an airplane) damaged beyond use except as scrap or as a source of salvageable spare parts.
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Examples from the Web for war-weary
Contemporary Examples
While Americans are war-weary, two-thirds think it is good to be engaged economically around the globe.
By its final chapter The Tender Soldier addresses head-on the unrealistic expectations—and limitations—of a war-weary superpower.
Already, Hezbollah faces image problems at home in war-weary Lebanon for its role backing Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria.
If a strike leads ineluctably toward the kinds of things Andrew discusses above, war-weary Americans won't forget how it started.
Here in the U.S., a war-weary public has welcomed the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq.
Historical Examples
It was war-weary, and its weariness was not of apathy, but of exhaustion.
A Poor Wise ManMary Roberts Rinehart
In the mean time the war-weary nation was clamoring for peace.
BolshevismJohn Spargo
There was an air of glad youth in them which came like a Spring wind over our war-weary spirits.
The fact that Paris was only a ghost of her former 61self made no impression on war-weary troopers.
Aces UpCovington Clarke
The Germans were prepared to make a separate peace with Russia; they believed her to be crushed and broken and war-weary.
The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 4 (of 10)James Edward Parrott