war-weary

[ wawr-weer-ee ]

/ ˈwɔrˌwɪər i /

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.

OTHER WORDS FROM war-weary

war-wea·ri·ness, noun

war story, war surplus, war whoop, war zone, war-horse, war-weary, war., waragi, warangal, waratah, warb

While 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.

Aces Up |Covington Clarke
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.

Bolshevism |John Spargo
It was war-weary, and its weariness was not of apathy, but of exhaustion.

A Poor Wise Man |Mary Roberts Rinehart