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tired |
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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