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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tired \Tired\, a.
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr & vb n.
{Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail AS teorian
to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
tear to rend, the intermediate sense being perhaps, to wear
out or cf E. tarry.]
To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail
to have the patience exhausted; as a feeble person soon
tires.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tired
adj 1: depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying
babies"; "too tired to eat" [ant: {rested}]
2: repeated too often overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic
sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace";
"hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating
threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the
trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: {banal}, {commonplace},
{hackneyed}, {shopworn}, {stock(a)}, {threadbare}, {timeworn},
{trite}, {well-worn}]
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