WEARIED, WEARINESS, WEARY, WEARYING
(also see WORN OUT)
ADJECTIVES
► AGE-WEARY made weary by age → 1853
► AWEARY tired, weary, fatigued → 1552
► BONE-WEARY utterly weary
► CARKING anxious, fretting, wearying, tiresome → 1785 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► CAWAW’D fatigued, wearied of anything to disgust → 1825 Sc.
► DADDET faint, weary, tired through overwork → 1908 Sc.
► DAGGED weary → 1868 Eng. dial.
► DEAD-RUN weary in the extreme → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► DEFATIGABLE apt to be wearied; capable of being wearied → 1656 obs.
► DILVERED exhausted, wearied, worn out with fatigue, drowsy → 1790 Eng. dial.
► ELENGE very long, tedious, weary, irksome → c897 obs.
► FAGGED wearied out, excessively tired or fatigued → 1780
► FASHED weary → 1827 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FATIGABLE wearying, tiring → 1656 obs.
► FATIGATE wearied, tired, fatigued, exhausted with labour → 1471 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FATIGATED fatigued, exhausted, weary → 1552 obs.
► FATIGUABLE wearying, tiring → 1656 obs.
► GAITED tired, weary → 1951 Amer. dial.
► HAGGLED wearied, harassed, worn out → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► HARRIED overdone, wearied, jaded → 1899 Eng. dial.
► HARRYING worrying, harassing, wearying → 1873 Eng. dial.
► HATTERED badly treated; exhausted, wearied → 1902 Sc. (Bk.)
► JADED ALL OVER tired, exhausted, fatigued, wearied→ 1966 Amer. dial.
► JADED OUT tired, exhausted, fatigued, wearied→ 1966 Amer. dial.
► JOED weary → 1934 students’ sl. (Bk.)
► LAGGAN fatiguing, beginning to weary → 1824 Sc.
► LASSATE tired, wearied → 1694 obs.
► MAULING tiring, fatiguing, wearying → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► METHEFUL weary, exhausted → a1300 obs.
► MOILED hot and weary with work; tired out, exhausted → 1790 Eng. dial.
► OORIT cold, shivering, hunched up with cold or discomfort; tired-looking or ailing-looking, weak, puny, wearied, in poor spirits, miserable, dejected → 1869 Sc.
► RAMFOOZLED confused, muddled, stupefied; spent, exhausted, wearied → 1786 Sc.
► SICK AND SADED tired or weary of something → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SWINKED wearied with toil; overworked → 1637
► SWUNK wearied with toil → 1858
► TAIGLED tired, wearied → 1814 Sc.
► TAINT exhausted, weary → c1380 obs.
► TANGLE too weary to stand → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)
► TEWING toilsome, wearying; worrying, tedious → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIREDFUL weary, tired → 1901 Eng. dial.
► TIRY tired, weary, fatigued → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TOILED exhausted with toil; worn-out, weary → 1592 arch.
► TOLD OUT played out, spun out, exhausted, weary → 1861 colloq.
► TWICKERED OUT tired, exhausted, very weary → 1886 Eng. dial.
► WAPPERED ► WOPPERED fatigued, wearied, restless → 1868 Eng. dial.
► WAY-WORN fatigued or wearied by travel → 1777
NOUNS
► ATTEDIATION the act of wearying or the fact of being wearied → 1485 obs.
► DEFATIGATION the act of wearying out, or condition of being wearied out; fatigue → 1508 obs.
► FAG a bore; a chore; an unpleasant, tedious task; anything that causes weariness, hard work, toil, drudgery, fatigue; a wearisome thing→ 1780 colloq.
► FAGGING ABOUT the act of working hard or wearying oneself at something; hard work → 1850
► FASTIDIUM disgust; feeling of weariness, tedium → a1734
► FATIGATION the state of being fatigued, weariness → 1504 obs.
► FESSITUDE weariness, tiredness, fatigue → 1656 obs.
► GONENESS extreme weariness, complete exhaustion → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HAG-STOP weariness; a stoppage, dilemma → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► IRK weariness; pain → 1796 Sc.
► LASSATION weariness → 1650 obs.
► LASSITUDE the condition of being weary in body or mind; a flagging of the bodily or mental powers; indifference to exertion; weariness → 1533
► TIRE fatigue, weariness, stiffness → 1879 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TIRESOMENESS the condition of being tired; weariness → 1646 obs.
VERBS
► ATTEDIATE to be tedious to; to tire, to weary, to exhaust → 1603 obs.
► BACKSET to weary, to fatigue, to worry → 1932 Sc.
► BEJADE to weary, tire out → 1620 obs.
► DAUL ► DAWL to tire, to weary, to fatigue → 1796 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► DEFATIGATE to make weary, to tire out, to exhaust with labour → 1552 obs.
► DILVER to weary with labour or exercise → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DUFFER to exhaust; to wear out a person or thing → 1876 obs.
► DULL to grow weary, to tire of something → 1898 Sc. (Bk.)
► FAG to make one fatigued; to tire, to weary; to exhaust → 1826
► FASH to give trouble, to bother, to weary → 1533 chiefly Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► FASH AT to be impatient with, to be intolerant of; to grow weary of → 1721 Sc.
► FATIGATE to fatigue, exhaust, weary, tire → 1535 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FLAX ► FLAX OUT to become weary or exhausted → 1891 Amer. dial.
► GIVE DOWN to be overcome with weariness; to breakdown → 1938 Amer. dial.
► HAG to fatigue, to weary, to tire out → 1674 obs. exc. Eng. & Amer. dial.
► HARASS to wear out, tire out, or exhaust with fatigue, trouble, care, etc. → a1626 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HATTER to harass, to vex, to ill-treat; to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue or drudgery → 1687 obs. exc. Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► HEAVY to become heavy through weariness or grief → a1000 obs.
► JABB to weary, to tire out, to exhaust → 1790 Sc.
► JACK UP to wear out; to tire, to exhaust → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► JADE to exhaust or wear out by driving or working hard; to fatigue, to weary, to tire → 1606
► JAFFLE to tire or wear out → 1824 Sc.
► LAG to tire, to weary, to fatigue, to exhaust → 1902 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► LASSATE to weary → 1623 obs.
► MAISIN to fatigue, to weary, to exhaust → a1850 Sc.
► NIRK to irk, to annoy, to harass, to weary → 1861 Eng. dial.
► PAIL to trouble; to harass, to weary → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► PUT DOTS ON to bore, to weary → 1919 military sl., obs.
► RAMFEEZLE to exhaust oneself with work; to wear oneself out → 1885 Sc.
► RAZZOR to exhaust; to wear out, to tire → 19C Eng. dial.
► SADE 1. to become satiated or weary → c888 obs.
2. to glut, to satiate; to make weary of → c1000 obs. exc. Eng. dial. obs.
► SCALP to grow weary; to become dispirited → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SOWP to weary, to tire; to become exhausted or worn out → 1450 Sc. obs.
► TAFFLE to perplex, to tire, to wear out, to exhaust with fatigue → 1750 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► TAIGLE to tire, to make weary, to fatigue → 1814 Sc.
► TAINGHLE to harass or weary with hard work; to struggle on, to toil laboriously → 1803 Sc.
► TAKE THE STARCH OUT OF to break the spirit of someone or something, to make weary or less arrogant → M19 sl.
► TAR to weary, to fatigue → c1440 obs.
► TASH to fatigue, to weary out → 1892 Sc.
► TEDIFY to become tedious, to weary, to bore → 1613 obs.
► TUCKER OUT to weary; to tire; to exhaust → 1984 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► WEAR DOWN TO THE NAIL to wear out, or ‘to the bone’; to be almost at an end → 1873 Sc.