forweary
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- weary.
Verb
editforweary (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
editFrom Middle English forwery, equivalent to for- (“very, excessively”) weary.
Adjective
editforweary (comparative more forweary, superlative most forweary)
- (obsolete) Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.