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[ wawr-weer-ee ] / ˈwɔrˌwɪər i /
adjectiveutterly exhausted and dejected by war, especially after a prolonged conflict. (of an airplane) damaged beyond use except as scrap or as a source of salvageable spare parts. OTHER WORDS FROM war-wearywar-wea·ri·ness, nounWords nearby war-wearyWarton, warts and all, wart snake, warty, warty dyskeratoma, war-weary, war whoop, Warwick, Warwickshire, wary, war zone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for war-wearyWhile Americans are war-weary, two-thirds think it is good to be engaged economically around the globe. Will Rand Paul’s Unorthodox Foreign Policy Fit in the GOP?|Kristen Soltis Anderson|April 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST By its final chapter The Tender Soldier addresses head-on the unrealistic expectations—and limitations—of a war-weary superpower. Send in the Marines—and the Anthropologists too?|John Kael Weston|August 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST Already, Hezbollah faces image problems at home in war-weary Lebanon for its role backing Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria. Hezbollah's Return To Terror|Ali Gharib|February 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST If a strike leads ineluctably toward the kinds of things Andrew discusses above, war-weary Americans won't forget how it started. Does Bibi Have the American People Hypnotized or Something?|Michael Tomasky|September 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Here in the U.S., a war-weary public has welcomed the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq. Santorum Rips Obama ‘Weakness,’ Makes Political Hay of Quran Burning|P.J. Crowley|February 26, 2012|DAILY BEAST The fact that Paris was only a ghost of her former 61self made no impression on war-weary troopers. The Germans, war-weary, were stunned by the vigor of the fresh army that once in action would not be denied. Air Service Boys Flying for Victory|Charles Amory Beach There was an air of glad youth in them which came like a Spring wind over our war-weary spirits. War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919|Various In the mean time the war-weary nation was clamoring for peace. It was war-weary, and its weariness was not of apathy, but of exhaustion. A Poor Wise Man|Mary Roberts Rinehart
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