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the bone-deep tired that sleep can't fix because the soul filed the complaint
means So tired you're worn out — drained in body, mind, or spirit, often past the point of caring.
from From Old English 'wērig,' meaning exhausted or tired, a word with Germanic roots possibly tied to an ancient sense of stumbling or being weak. The same family gives us 'worse' relatives in old Germanic tongues for failing strength. It's a survivor — the kind of plain, heavy word the language has carried, unchanged in feeling, for well over a thousand years.
- origin
- From Old English werig, meaning exhausted or miserable
- world-weary
- A whole word for being tired of existence itself
- battle root
- Once described soldiers worn down by endless marching
- not sleepy
- Weariness lingers even after a full night's rest
for instance
odysseus after troy — spent 10 years wandering home in homer's odyssey, exhausted by endless trials