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单词 war-weary
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Definition of war-weary in English:

war-weary

adjective
  • Exhausted and dispirited by war or conflict.

    an increasingly war-weary population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Security has become a pressing concern here and war-weary residents yesterday cheered news of a breakthrough on the deployment of a British-led international security force.
    • With a little money and a lot of grit, they had found a way for the war-weary people of Kosovo to reconnect with one another as well as with the world.
    • In Britain, Churchill and Milner were the main advocates of this, but Lloyd George, fearing disaffection among war-weary troops and workers, was opposed.
    • In fact, many Russians bad good reason for resenting the Allied occupation, especially the thousands of war-weary people who had been conscripted.
    • Most parts of the interior are inaccessible due to the continuing fighting, making it difficult for aid agencies to reach war-weary residents in these areas.

Derivatives

  • war-weariness

  • noun
    • Eventually, by 1917, sheer war-weariness was taking its toll, quite apart from other factors such as the growing militancy from organized labour and the Messianic appeal of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Twenty-two years later, that war-weariness remained, creating a French popular and political (but not military) reluctance either to enter into a conflict or to continue a conflict once it had begun.
      • This simple question from a bereaved mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq is fueling growing war-weariness across the United States.
      • His demise changed the psychology of the people, whose war-weariness also made the situation ripe for the historic summit in Egypt.
      • While urban protests were encouraged by the Communists, Fenby writes, they were ‘above all, a sign of war-weariness and alienation from a regime that had nothing more to offer.’
 
 

Definition of war-weary in US English:

war-weary

adjectiveˈwɔrˌwɪriˈwôrˌwirē
  • Exhausted and dispirited by war or conflict.

    an increasingly war-weary population
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Security has become a pressing concern here and war-weary residents yesterday cheered news of a breakthrough on the deployment of a British-led international security force.
    • In Britain, Churchill and Milner were the main advocates of this, but Lloyd George, fearing disaffection among war-weary troops and workers, was opposed.
    • With a little money and a lot of grit, they had found a way for the war-weary people of Kosovo to reconnect with one another as well as with the world.
    • Most parts of the interior are inaccessible due to the continuing fighting, making it difficult for aid agencies to reach war-weary residents in these areas.
    • In fact, many Russians bad good reason for resenting the Allied occupation, especially the thousands of war-weary people who had been conscripted.
 
 
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