Meaning of war weary | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B2]

Examples

“Sir, we are getting more modern equipment. In some cases the equipment we are receiving is a little war weary. It does take some rebuilding and repair. [...] [W]e are doing everything we can with Air Force assistance to bring up the level of maintenance of those aircraft that are a little war weary.”

“War weary and exhausted, the UK had neither the political will nor the resources to want another war in which, unlike the Second World War, it would from the very beginning have to play second fiddle to the USA.”

“Even World War II, seen as the “good war,” found the American people quite war weary by 1945.”

“"But here, too, we are so war weary. Everything we hear on the radio or the television is nothing but negative," said John Stone.”

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