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Synonyms for weary

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for weary

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Synonyms for weary

lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

physically and mentally fatigued

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Receive the weary ones, who have known the vanity of earth,--receive the little children, that they may never learn that miserable lesson.
Crooks, with five others, turned their steps up it; retracing by land the weary course they had made by water, intending, should they not find relief nearer at hand, to keep on until they should reach Henry's Fort, where they hoped to find the horses they had left there, and to return with them to the main body.
Hunt now set to work with all diligence, to prepare caches, in which to deposit the baggage and merchandise, of which it would be necessary to disburden themselves, preparatory to their weary march by land: and here we shall give a brief description of those contrivances, so noted in the wilderness.
The floor was already strewn with weary sleepers, and the foul air of the place almost repelled him; but the heavy night-dews were chill, and his limbs weary, and, wrapping about him a tattered blanket, which formed his only bed-clothing, he stretched himself in the straw and fell asleep.
I thought, walking dizzy and weary in sunshine on the hard paths of white men I thought, She is there--with us!
In daylight she moved with a swaying walk before me upon the weary paths; her figure was straight and flexible like the stem of a slender tree; the heels of her feet were round and polished like shells of eggs; with her round arm she made signs.
The consoler of sleepless nights, of weary days; the companion of troubled years!
AFC TELFORD manager Gavin Cowan admitted that his players looked 'weary' in a 1-0 defeat to Hereford.
Lay down, thou weary one lay down thy head upon my breast.
Summary: New Delhi [India], August 15 (ANI): National Conference (NC) leader Omar Abdullah said today that although Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remark on 'embracing Kashmiris' in his Independence Day address was well received, everyone is getting 'weary of yet more talk and no concrete action' on the matter.
In "Joy Fixes for Weary Parents: 101 Quick, Research-Based Ideas for Overcoming Stress and Building a Life You Love", Erin Leyba (an individual and marriage counselor, specializes in helping parents of young children) draws her own years of experience and expertise, as well as the latest research about child development, attachment, successful marriages, and mindfulness to create effective, doable solutions for balancing, simplifying, and communicating.
Joanna Makowska and Daniel Weary from the University of British Columbia, Canada, were awarded the 2016 3Rs prize by the UK's National Centre for the 3Rs (NC3Rs), sponsored by GlaxoSmithECline (GSK), for their work assessing the importance of simple and natural behaviors such as burrowing and standing upright (rearing) to rat welfare.
THE public are "weary" of endless austerity, Philip Hammond said.