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Adjective: tired  tI(-u)rd
  1. Depleted of strength or energy
    "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
     
  2. Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
    "his remarks were trite and tired";
    - banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat [informal], shopworn [N. Amer], stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn, shop-soiled [Brit]
Verb: tire  tI(-u)r
  1. 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, informal], fag [informal], fatigue, knacker [Brit, informal]
     
  2. 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
     
  3. Deplete, exhaust or weaken
    "tire one's savings";
    - run down, exhaust, play out, sap
     
  4. Be dull and cause to lose interest
    - bore

See also: all in, aweary [archaic], beat [informal], blear [archaic], blear-eyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, bored, burned-out, burnt-out, bushed, careworn, cornball [N. Amer, informal], dead [informal], deadbeat [Brit, informal], dog-tired [informal], drained, drawn, drooping, exhausted, fagged [Brit, informal], fatigued, flagging, footsore, fried [N. Amer, informal], gone, haggard, jaded, knackered [Brit, informal], played out, pooped [N. Amer, informal], raddled, ragged, raggedy [N. Amer], shagged [Brit, informal], shagged out [Brit, informal], shattered [Brit, informal], shot [informal], spent, stonkered [Brit, Austral, NZ, informal], travel-worn, unoriginal, unrefreshed, unrested, washed-out, wearied, weary, whacked [Brit, informal], world-weary, worn, worn out, worn-out, zonked [informal], zonked out [informal]

Type of: consume, degenerate, deplete, deteriorate, devolve, drop, eat, eat up, exhaust, indispose, run through, use up, wipe out

Antonym: rested

Encyclopedia: Tired

Tire, Turkey