Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for WEA'RY
WEA'RY, v.t. [from the adjective.]
- To reduce or exhaust the physical strength of the body; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with labor or traveling. The people shall weary themselves for very vanity. – Hab. ii.
- To make impatient of continuance. I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. – Shak.
- To harass by any thing irksome; as, to be wearied of waiting for the arrival of the post. To weary out, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
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