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overweary, v.|əʊvəˈwɪərɪ|
[over- 21, 27.]
trans. To overcome with weariness; to weary to excess.
1576Turberv. Venerie 72 Recomfort their members which are sore overwearied. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. 269 When the master is compelled to diuide his pains both amongst little and great, he may much ouer-wearie himselfe. 1821Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 271 Like to a child o'erwearied with sweet toil. 1875Dental Cosmos XVII. 513 Rather than over-weary the patient,..one sitting may be given to the preparation of the cavities.
Hence overˈwearied, overˈwearying ppl. adjs. So over-ˈweary a., overcome with weariness; excessively weary, too weary to hold out.
1591Murther of Ld. Brough, Overwerying plaints abreviate the libertie of speach. 1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 332 Satan so molested Job..that, as an overwearied man, he cries out he had no quiet. 1794Southey Poems Slave Trade Sonn. iii, Beneath thy hard command O'erwearied nature sinks. 1851C. L. Smith tr. Tasso vi. cx, Give rest to her o'erweary mind. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 83 Half starved and over-weary as they were, they lay without moving. |