weary

adjetivo

1. 1

   Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

   A weary traveller knocked at the door.

   I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary.

   [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.

2. 2

   Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.

   soldiers weary of marching, or of confinement; I grew weary of studying and left the library.

   [Henry Chang:] Could I persuade you to accept my hospitality until such time as you should grow weary of me? [Shangai Lily:] I'm weary of you now.

3. 3

   Expressive of fatigue.

   He gave me a weary smile.

4. 4

   Causing weariness; tiresome.

   And now she was vppon the weary way,

   There passed a weary time.

   She had to dance all night without resting till break of day […] Old women supported her in the weary task, and they all danced together, arm in arm.

verbo

1. 1

   To make or to become weary.

   So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,

   I would not cease / To wearie him with my assiduous cries.

   His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.

   Next morning, as I stood motionless and with heavy eyes at the helm—for I had not slept well—I began to weary anxiously for daylight, and peered towards the horizon, where I thought I observed something like a black cloud against the dark sky.

Formas

comparativo

wearier

superlativo

weariest

pretérito

wearied

particípio passado

wearied

gerúndio

wearying

3.ª pessoa do singular

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