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TIRED (5)

TIRED

tired - a 
depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" 

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Synonyms

all in, aweary [archaic], beat, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], prostrate, spent, tapped out, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, weary, wiped out, worn, worn-out

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Examples

“I know you must be tired, so I will let you rest.”

“The toddlers were both tired and cranky.”

“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room.”

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Etymology

"exhausted, fatigued, weary," early 15c., past-participle adjective from tire (v.).

tire (v.1)
"to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian) "to fail, cease; become weary; make weary, exhaust," of uncertain origin; according to Watkins possibly from Proto-Germanic *teuzon, from a suffixed form of PIE root *deu- (1) "to lack, be wanting." Related: Tired; tiring.

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