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war-weary
[ wawr-weer-ee ]
adjective
- utterly 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.
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- war-weari·ness noun
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Example Sentences
While Americans are war-weary, two-thirds think it is good to be engaged economically around the globe.
By its final chapter The Tender Soldier addresses head-on the unrealistic expectations—and limitations—of a war-weary superpower.
Already, Hezbollah faces image problems at home in war-weary Lebanon for its role backing Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria.
Many of us are indeed war-weary and war-wary, especially everyone who served “over there” again and again.
If a strike leads ineluctably toward the kinds of things Andrew discusses above, war-weary Americans won't forget how it started.
The Germans were prepared to make a separate peace with Russia; they believed her to be crushed and broken and war-weary.
It was the restful England which the exiled and the war-weary used so often to conjure up in their dreams.
For us, the Germans might cease from troubling and the war-weary be at rest, while we skipped back to any century we fancied.
The other armies were war-weary and clamouring for demobilisation and therefore unwilling to fight the Bolsheviks.
The Germans, war-weary, were stunned by the vigor of the fresh army that once in action would not be denied.
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