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Thesaurus: tired out

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    Extremely tired: bleary, dead, drained, exhausted, fatigued, rundown, spent, wearied, weariful, weary, worn-down, worn-out. Informal beat, bushed, tuckered (out). Slang done in, fagged (out), pooped (out). Idioms: all in, ready to drop. See health/sickness, tired/fresh.

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Also, tired to death. Exhausted, as in She looked tired out after that trip, or He came home tired to death. The first term dates from the second half of the 1500s; the second, a hyperbole, was first recorded in 1740. Also see sick and tired; to death.


 
 
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