forweary
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- + weary.
Verb
forweary (third-person singular simple present forwearies, present participle forwearying, simple past and past participle forwearied)
- (transitive, obsolete) To weary utterly; tire out.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book IX, Canto XIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight
From loftie steed, and downe to sleepe me layd
- (intransitive, obsolete) To become wearied.
Etymology 2
From Middle English forwery, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) + weary.
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