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Adjective: tired tI(-u)rd- Depleted of strength or energy
"tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" - Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"his remarks were trite and tired"; - banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit] Verb: tire tI(-u)r- Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
"We tired ourselves out on this hike"; - wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out [Brit], fag, fatigue, knacker [Brit] - Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
"I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"; - pall, weary, fatigue, jade - Deplete
"tire one's savings"; - run down, exhaust, play out, sap - Cause to be bored
- bore
See also: all in, aweary [archaic], beat, blear, blear-eyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bored, burned-out, burnt-out, bushed, careworn, cornball [N. Amer], dead, dog-tired, drained [Brit], drawn, drooping, exhausted, fagged, fatigued, flagging, footsore, fried [N. Amer], haggard, jaded, knackered [Brit], played out, pooped [N. Amer], raddled, ragged, raggedy [N. Amer], shagged [Brit], shagged out [Brit], shattered [Brit], spent, stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ], travel-worn, unoriginal, unrefreshed, unrested, washed-out, wearied, weary, whacked [Brit], world-weary, worn, worn out, worn-out, zonked [Brit], zonked out [Brit] Type of: consume, degenerate, deplete, deteriorate, devolve, drop, eat, eat up, exhaust, indispose, run through, use up, wipe out Antonym: refresh, rested Encyclopedia: Tired Tire, Turkey |