verb
- Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.
- usage: "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
- Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.
- usage: "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- Deplete.
- usage: "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- Cause to be bored.
adjective
- Producing exhaustion.
- usage: "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
- synonyms: exhausting, wearing, wearying
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