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WEARIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Exhausted
Example:
my father's words had left me jaded and depressed
Synonyms:
jaded; wearied
Classified under:
Similar:
tired (depleted of strength or energy)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb weary
Context examples:
A year ago I was myself intensely miserable, because I thought I had made a mistake in entering the ministry: its uniform duties wearied me to death.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Hour after hour passed away, and the wearied Catherine had heard three proclaimed by all the clocks in the house before the tempest subsided or she unknowingly fell fast asleep.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The theatre or the rooms, where he was most likely to be, were not fashionable enough for the Elliots, whose evening amusements were solely in the elegant stupidity of private parties, in which they were getting more and more engaged; and Anne, wearied of such a state of stagnation, sick of knowing nothing, and fancying herself stronger because her strength was not tried, was quite impatient for the concert evening.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
That night, wearied as I was after the wonderful happenings of the day, I sat late with McArdle, the news editor, explaining to him the whole situation, which he thought important enough to bring next morning before the notice of Sir George Beaumont, the chief.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nor can I truly say that I wearied of this beneficent and innocent life; I think instead that I daily enjoyed it more completely; but I was still cursed with my duality of purpose; and as the first edge of my penitence wore off, the lower side of me, so long indulged, so recently chained down, began to growl for licence.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Harrison stood listlessly at the wheel, half supporting himself by it, as though wearied by the weight of his flesh.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I never shall forget how I turned and tumbled; how I wearied myself with thinking about Agnes and this creature; how I considered what could I do, and what ought I to do; how I could come to no other conclusion than that the best course for her peace was to do nothing, and to keep to myself what I had heard.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Still, however, Fanny was oppressed and wearied; he saw it in her looks, it could not be talked away; and attempting it no more, he led her directly, with the kind authority of a privileged guardian, into the house.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Old Hannah never wearied of concocting dainty dishes to tempt a capricious appetite, dropping tears as she worked, and from across the sea came little gifts and cheerful letters, seeming to bring breaths of warmth and fragrance from lands that know no winter.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The cheeks were sunken, and there was a wearied, puckered expression on the brow.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
