overweary

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adjective

over·​wea·​ry ˌō-vər-ˈwir-ē 

: too weary : extremely tired or worn out

He was somewhat overweary after a strenuous year; but to Dartmoor he always came for health and rest when opportunity offered …

—Eden Phillpotts

I resolved to establish myself as a well-behaved female at one or two good restaurants, where I could dine alone at a pleasant table with adequate attentions rather than be pushed into a corner and given a raw or overweary waiter.

—M. F. K. Fisher

And many established managers … are overloaded and overweary of helping people up the ropes who don't always appreciate their cost-free contributions.

—Joyce Lain Kennedy

overweary

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verb

overwearied; overwearying

transitive verb

: to make excessively weary : to cause to be extremely tired or worn out

It was not physical exercise that overwearied him, … it was his tendency to remain only too quiescent, as regarded any toil of the limbs and muscles.

—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1617, in the meaning defined above

Verb

15th century, in the meaning defined above