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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overweary.

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Examples

  • But overwearied and warm from the fire, he could not keep his eyes open.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003

  • But overwearied and warm from the fire, he could not keep his eyes open.

    Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997

  • Thou shalt not be overwearied with waiting; one year and then --

    The Riches of Bunyan Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin

  • It was gastric fever, and before long there _were_ unfavourable symptoms -- pallid changes in the aspect, hurried breathing, wandering senses -- all noted with heart-breaking anxiety by the loving nurses, the Queen and Princess Alice -- the daughter so tender and beloved, the "dear little wife," the "good little wife," whose ministerings were so comfortable to the sufferer overwearied with the great burden of life.

    Great Britain and Her Queen Annie E. Keeling

  • Colin sat down heavily, as if he were overwearied, and the farmer's wife moved about slowly, putting before him what she had; and the

    Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

  • We forget what these men endure -- their risks, their privations, their fatigues, their anxieties, _their battles with themselves_, when sleep -- more insidious than even the lurking enemy in the bush -- tugs at their heavy eyelids, and their overwearied senses are barely held to their allegiance by the strongest mental effort.

    Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive Alf Burnett

  • I feared she was overwearied with watching and her long attendance on my mother, for her face was pale and she had a headache.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various

  • The tutor was overwearied with incessant struggles to keep the two from variance.

    Hubert's Wife A Story for You Minnie Mary Lee

  • Still she could not help reading, till she came to one passage which so agitated her that the tired and overwearied girl's self-control left her entirely.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

  • But Dale was quite composed now -- she had gone through so many shocks already that one more or less seemed to make very little difference to her overwearied nerves.

    The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

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