Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overweary .
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Examples
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But overwearied and warm from the fire, he could not keep his eyes open.
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But overwearied and warm from the fire, he could not keep his eyes open.
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Thou shalt not be overwearied with waiting; one year and then --
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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.
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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
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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.
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I feared she was overwearied with watching and her long attendance on my mother, for her face was pale and she had a headache.
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The tutor was overwearied with incessant struggles to keep the two from variance.
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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.
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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.
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