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• v  exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
• v  lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
• s  exhausted

• He never wearied of noting that a great-grandfather, Judge Hunter Holmes Southworth, owned vast spreads of rich Delta cotton land in pre-Civil War days.
• By the 1990s Lin wearied of successful but predictable productions.
• Nixon unveiled it in 1969 to a nation wearied by Vietnam.

• tire
• wear upon
• tire out
• wear
• weary
• jade
• wear out
• outwear
• wear down
• fag out
• fag
• fatigue
• pall
• jaded

• refresh

News & Articles

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• Rugby-All about winning at the fourth attempt for O'Driscoll
  By Nick Mulvenney BRISBANE, June 22 (Reuters) - Brian O'Driscoll goes into his fourth British and Irish Lions test series on Saturday but age has certainly not wearied him, at least where his desire for victory is concerned. The 34-year-old Irishman, who captained the 2005 tour and also featured in 2001 and 2009, will line up at outside centre when the tourists take on Australia at Brisbane on ...
  June 21, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! Sports

Quotes

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• Robert Fisk in Sydney Morning Herald
  In his recent book, Fisk describes war as "the total failure of the human spirit" and comments that he knows of an editor "who has wearied of hearing" him say this.
• Rowan Williams in Boston Globe (registration)
  Williams wrote that he prayed for Anglican leaders but "most especially for all those ordinary people of God, in the Episcopal Church and elsewhere, who are puzzled, wearied, or disoriented by our present controversies."
• George Washington in Pacific Northwest Inlander
  Washington wrote that he was "wearied almost to death."