forweary · verb — to weary utterly; tire out. It carries an Arena rating of 1685, earned across 35 head-to-head judged battles.
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Why “forweary” is a great word
FORWEARY — [Verb, Adjective] To tire out or exhaust completely, or to be in a state of utter weariness. From Middle English forwerien, combining the intensive prefix for- (implying exhaustion or negation) with weary. Unlike "fatigue," which suggests a general, often temporary state, or "enervate," which focuses on the draining of vitality, to be forwearied is to be scraped hollow by prolonged strain. It is the ache in a ploughman’s hands at the end of the longest day, the heavy-lidded vacancy of a mind cycling through every worry, and the final sigh of a clockwork toy as its last spring unwinds—the absolute terminus of effort, where nothing remains to be spent.
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Etymology
From Middle English forwerien, equivalent to for- + weary.
verb
- To weary utterly; tire out.e.g.“Forwearied with my sportes, I did alight
From loftie steed, and downe to sleepe me layd” — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book IX, Canto XIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To become wearied.
adj
- Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.
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