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weary
English
Etymology
From Middle English wery, weri, from Old English w?ri?, from Proto-Germanic *w?r?gaz, *w?ragaz. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wuurich (“weary, tired”), West Frisian wurch (“tired”), Dutch dialectal wurrig (“exhausted”), Old Saxon w?rig (“weary”), Old High German w?rag, wuarag (“drunken”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?w???i/
- (Scotland) IPA(key): /?wi??i/
- Rhymes: -???i
- Hyphenation: wea?ry
Adjective
weary (comparative wearier, superlative weariest)
- Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene IV:
- I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.
- 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Weariness
- [I] am weary, thinking of your task.
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- 1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act 2, Scene IV:
- Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
- Expressive of fatigue.
- Causing weariness; tiresome.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- There passed a weary time.
- 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:fatigued
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
weary (third-person singular simple present wearies, present participle wearying, simple past and past participle wearied)
- To make or to become weary.
- 1599, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, scene iii
- So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, Chapter 4
- Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:tire
- 1599, Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act IV, scene iii
Derived terms
- unwearied
- unwearying
- weariedly
Translations
See also
- wary
Anagrams
- Erway, Wreay
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tires
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ta???(?)z/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ta???z/
Noun
tires
- plural of tire.
Verb
tires
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tire
Anagrams
- Istre, Reist, Siret, Sirte, iters, reist, resit, rites, tiers, tries
Asturian
Verb
tires
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tirar
Catalan
Verb
tires
- second-person singular present indicative form of tirar
French
Verb
tires
- second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of tirer
Anagrams
- rîtes
- tiers
- tries, triés
Latin
Verb
tir?s
- second-person singular present active subjunctive of tir?
Portuguese
Verb
tires
- inflection of tirar:
- second-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular negative imperative
Scots
Verb
tires
- third-person singular simple present indicative form of tire
Spanish
Verb
tires
- Informal second-person singular (tú) negative imperative form of tirar.
- Informal second-person singular (tú) present subjunctive form of tirar.
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