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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of weary.

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Examples

  • Every wanderer grows old, and wearies of the seas, skies, and roads that lead endlessly onward.

    HOLLOW JAKE • by Douglas Campbell 2010

  • Midway through the stories in "The Angel Esmeralda," as happens in many of Mr. DeLillo's novels, the reader wearies of his avoidance of "real things."

    The Nightmare Of Real Things Sam Sacks 2011

  • “Something was always happening to the ‘war wearies,’ either an engine or a wing was apt to fall off.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • This is a theme of my comments next week at a forum on alternative energy — no business model (save perhaps farming, which the public seems willing to subsidize forever) is sustainable if it requires constant subsidies – at some point, the public wearies of the fiscal drain, or the growth of the business makes the subsidies too large to sustain.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Environmental Theater 2010

  • Waiting on the runway of the Bangkok airport after several failed attempts to gain sufficient altitude, Jane was doing the complex figuring on the odds of her surviving another run on one of the “war wearies.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • He wearies of community organizing and limits his law school choices to “Harvard, Yale, Stanford.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

  • “Something was always happening to the ‘war wearies,’ either an engine or a wing was apt to fall off.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • A popular saying begins, "When the world wearies..." and some people fill this in with "there's always the garden" or others with "drink good wine."

    Kirsten Dixon: Meditating On The Chopra Center Kirsten Dixon 2011

  • Waiting on the runway of the Bangkok airport after several failed attempts to gain sufficient altitude, Jane was doing the complex figuring on the odds of her surviving another run on one of the “war wearies.”

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • He wearies of community organizing and limits his law school choices to “Harvard, Yale, Stanford.”

    Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

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