wearies
- present tense form of weary (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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But numerous media reports suggest that he has been marginalised as Trump wearies of being controlled and seeks to cut loose.
From The Guardian • Apr. 30, 2018
“Joy wearies me, and I hate happiness when I catch a glimpse of it in a human expression,” he told Newsweek in 1963.
From New York Times • Jul. 7, 2017
Despite the technical difficulty of writing almost entirely in dialogue, Compton-Burnett rarely wearies or falters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richard wearies of making spaniel eyes at the termagant widow and rejects her quite brutally when she decides he'll do.
From Time Magazine Archive
One wearies of this perpetual character's perpetual library, crowded, as it always is, with the latest French and German monographs.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
