Fatiguing, toilsome, exhausting. (Sometimes blending indistinguishably with sense 6.)

Taking in moisture, absorbent; figurative, drawing to oneself, tending to drain or exhaust. Obsolete.

transferred and figurative. Worked out, exhausted, used up; in quot. 1548, exhausting. Also, of language, literature, etc.: hackneyed, trite.

That moils; labouring, toiling; fatiguing, toilsome; turbulent.

Causing weariness from bodily or mental exertion or protracted pain; fatiguing, exhausting. Now somewhat rare.

wearying, fatiguing.

Causing physical fatigue; fatiguing, tiring. Obsolete. (Now merged in sense 1.)

Wearying, tiring, fatiguing. Obsolete.

Wearying, tiring. Obsolete. rare.

That causes fatigue; wearisome.

Of a fatiguing nature; wearisome.

That tires a person out; fatiguing, exhausting.

That causes weariness, fatigue, or lassitude.

That exhausts; chiefly, that exhausts the strength; wearying, tiring, enfeebling.

fatiguing, exhausting.

In hyperbolic use: Able to kill. Physically overpowering; exhausting.

fatiguing, wearing out.