Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To weary out; exhaust by weariness; fatigue exceedingly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To weary out.

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  • verb transitive To weary out.

Etymologies

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out- +‎ weary

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Examples

  • Tabby was slow in getting well; but she did not outweary the patience of her friends.

    Emily Brontë 1900

  • Even in so complex an effort as a visit to a picture gallery implies, she could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men.

    George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy Cooke, George W 1884

  • Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • He came prepared, not only to smite the Netherlanders in the open field, but to cope with them in tortuous policy; to outwatch and outweary them in the game to which his impatient predecessor had fallen a baked victim.

    The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • What had he to fear from a powerless and impoverished Princess, whose misfortunes had already endured a sufficient time to outweary her foreign protectors; to subdue the hopes, and to exhaust the energies of her former adherents; and to reduce her to an insignificance of which, as her present measures sufficiently evinced, she had herself become despairingly conscious?

    The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3 Julia Pardoe 1833

  • Patience hath a long term, and we cannot outrun it, outweary it.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • a picture gallery implies, she could continue for hours at the same pitch of earnest interest, and outweary strong men.

    George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy George Willis Cooke 1885

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