outwearyv.
/ˌaʊtˈwɪəri/, U.S. /ˌaʊtˈwɪri/ Chiefly poetic.
transitive. To tire or fatigue utterly; to exhaust the endurance of.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > weary or exhaust [verb (transitive)]
wearyc897
tirea1000
travailc1300
forwearya1325
taryc1375
tarc1440
matec1450
break1483
labour1496
overwearya1500
wear?1507
to wear out, forth1525
fatigate1535
stress1540
overtire1558
forwaste1563
to tire out1563
overwear1578
spend1582
out-tire1596
outwear1596
outweary1596
overspend1596
to toil out1596
attediate1603
bejade1620
lassate1623
harassa1626
overtask1628
tax1672
hag1674
trash1685
hatter1687
overtax1692
fatigue1693
to knock up1740
tire to death1740
overfatigue1741
fag1774
outdo1776
to do over1789
to use up1790
jade1798
overdo1817
frazzlea1825
worry1828
to sew up1837
to wear to death1840
to take it (also a lot, too much, etc.) out of (a person)1847
gruel1850
to stump up1853
exhaust1860
finish1864
peter1869
knacker1886
grind1887
tew1893
crease1925
poop1931
raddle1951
1596 F. Sabie Dauid & Bathsheba in Adams Complaint sig. F Field-tilling Swains driue home their toiling teams, Out-wearied with ardencie of heat.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. 75 Outwearied at last with so much painefull toile.
1641 T. Jordan Drunkard l. 27, in Pictures But there's your Antick-drunkard..That with his irksom Dances will out-weary Patience.
1715 B. Griffin Injur'd Virtue ii. iv. 29 But even Death it self Shall be out-wearied in tormenting her.
a1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 145 Unbelievers may soon be outwearied, and give it over for altogether.
1881 Cent. Mag. Nov. 59/2 She could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men.
1893 G. Meredith Let. 20 Feb. (1970) II. 1123 I must own that I am outwearied by your shifty dealings.
a1910 J. W. Howe Hippolytus (1941) II. ii. 91 Friend, no more Will I outweary thee with speed and stride Unmeasured.
1972 K. Burke Let. 8 July in Sel. Corr. K. Burke & M. Cowley (1988) 386 Don't try to out-weary me.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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