war-weary

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈwɔː ˌwɪəɹi/    美 /ˈwɔɹ ˌwɪəɹi/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Weary or tired of war.
    — Read the language in which the poet of the war-weary Roman world salutes the Augustan empire. [...] The place which Virgil held in the estimation of pious Churchmen though the mediæval period, in which pagan and devilish were almost convertible terms, is mainly due to the almost prophetic character of the visions which the poet paints for his war-weary countrymen of the restoration of the blessed Saturnian reign.
  2. Tired from fighting in a war.
    — And whiles the honourable Captaine there / Drops bloody ſwet from his warre-wearied limbes, / And in aduantage lingring lookes for reſcue, / You his falſe hopes, the truſt of Englands honor, / Keepe off aloofe with worthleſſe emulation: [...]

词形变化

war-wearier comparative more war-weary comparative war-weariest superlative most war-weary superlative warweary alternative war weary alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
war-weariness warweariness
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