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Tried vs Weary - What's the difference?

tried | weary |

As verbs the difference between tried and weary

is that tried is (try) while weary is to make or to become weary.

As an adjective weary is

having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.

tried

English

Verb

(head)
  • (try)
  • *
    • The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.

    Derived terms

    * untried * tried and tested * tried and true * well-tried

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    weary

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; tired; fatigued.
  • :
  • *1623 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , :
  • *:I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary .
  • *(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
  • *:[I] am weary , thinking of your task.
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  • *:There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
  • Having one's patience, relish, or contentment exhausted; tired; sick.
  • :
  • Expressive of fatigue.
  • :
  • Causing weariness; tiresome.
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:weary way
  • *(Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
  • *:There passed a weary time.

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    Derived terms

    * wearily * weariness * wearisome

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To make or to become weary.
  • * Shakespeare (Julius Caesar )
    • So shall he waste his means, weary his soldiers,
  • * Milton
    • I would not cease / To weary him with my assiduous cries.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
    • Yet there was no time to be lost if I was ever to get out alive, and so I groped with my hands against the side of the grave until I made out the bottom edge of the slab, and then fell to grubbing beneath it with my fingers. But the earth, which the day before had looked light and loamy to the eye, was stiff and hard enough when one came to tackle it with naked hands, and in an hour's time I had done little more than further weary myself and bruise my fingers.

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    * wary English ergative verbs