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  3  definitions  found 
 
  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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