as in tired
depleted in strength, energy, or freshness
I'm just played out after the week I've had
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as in spent
to make complete use of
we've finally played out the leftovers from that huge holiday meal
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Recent Examples of played out
Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
Lack and his colleagues’ investigations into why, which played out over the next 15 years, led to last month’s remarkable finding that the incidence of peanut allergies in the US – after a precipitous rise – appeared to have fallen dramatically.
—Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025
Valerie Gonzalez, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025
Last week, some islanders were captured in New York City ahead of taping the special episode, where fans expect to get an update on relationships, commentary about how things played out in the villa, and post-Fiji drama.
—Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
As the president tests the limits of his executive authority and takes a bulldozer -- in some cases literally -- approach to changing Washington and the country, the ramifications for Republicans and Democrats are going to be played out in these results.
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On the runway, planes sat with engines idling, ground crews making final preparations as if departures could come at any moment — all as the courtroom battle played out hundreds of miles away in Washington.
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Benin is the birthplace of voodoo, a religion far more complex than the tired tropes of straw dolls and pins.—
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The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.—
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The trio were indicted in May and accused of falsifying loan applications to get federal pandemic relief funds and money meant for Brown’s nonprofit that was spent on a lavish birthday party and Louis Vuitton items.—
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McLendon has spent the last two seasons on the practice squad prior to making his Dolphins debut during the season finale against the New England Patriots.—
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This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.—
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Meanwhile, an exhausted fan base watches on.—
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Flames were shooting out of Flashbacks, her family’s beloved small-town diner, and there was nothing to do but watch as the building — part restaurant, part local history display, all community institution — was consumed by the blaze.—
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Afterward the plane could be seen on the runway, consumed in flame.—
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Clearly the consumer is tapped out.—
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The first movie tapped out with $86.1 million but became a sleeper hit on home entertainment, while the sequel ended its run with $174.3 million.—
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Even hospital appointments were overwhelming, with bright lights leaving her drained and overstimulated.—
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This vast gulf between us, not just as Americans but as human beings, has drained me of hope.—
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Hill believes the lack of interest stems from the injury that pretty much wiped out his junior season.—
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Bloomberg reported in December 2024 that Venezuelans were turning to firewood and even their own furniture to cook after an explosion at a propane plant wiped out most of the country’s transmission.—
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While many areas are seeing visibility reduced to between one and three miles, patchy dense fog is reducing visibilities to as low as one quarter mile in spots.—
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Unable to turn back against the strong currents of the Napo, the party, now reduced to just 50, carried on downriver toward the Amazon.—
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“Played out.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/played%20out. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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