wearying

wearying
    adj 1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit
           was especially wearing" [syn: {exhausting}, {tiring},
           {wearing}, {wearying}]
    

Weary \Wea"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Wearied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Wearying}.]
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   1. To reduce or exhaust the physical strength or endurance
      of; to tire; to fatigue; as, to weary one's self with
      labor or traveling.
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            So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers.
                                                  --Shak.
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   2. To make weary of anything; to exhaust the patience of, as
      by continuance.
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            I stay too long by thee; I weary thee. --Shak.
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   3. To harass by anything irksome.
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            I would not cease
            To weary him with my assiduous cries. --Milton.
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   {To weary out}, to subdue or exhaust by fatigue.
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   Syn: To jade; tire; fatigue; fag. See {Jade}.
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31 Moby Thesaurus words for "wearying":
      boresome, boring, burdensome, draining, exhausting, fatiguesome,
      fatiguing, grinding, grueling, harsh, heavy, irksome, killing,
      onerous, oppressive, overburdensome, punishing, straining,
      stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring,
      toilsome, trying, tyrannous, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weighty,
      yawny