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as in exhausted
depleted in strength, energy, or freshness
I'm usually tired after a long day of working in the yard
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2
as in bored
having one's patience, interest, or pleasure exhausted
I'm sick and tired of your antics
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as in stereotyped
used or heard so often as to be dull
such tired phrases won't hold your reader's interest
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as in weakened
to diminish the physical strength of
I don't want our walk to tire you too much
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as in wearied
to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous
this long dry lecture will tire the audience if you don't insert some jokes into it
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as in wore
to use up all the physical energy of
this pentathlon will tire all but the hardiest athletes
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Recent Examples of tired
Alexandria Nyembwe, Health, 7 Nov. 2025
Adam To, the owner of Howard’s Bar in downtown Stillwater, got tired of doom-scrolling and negative news this week and decided to do something about it.
—Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2025
Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 24 Oct. 2025
Many blue-city residents who have noticed a decrease in crime surely appreciate the safer streets, an environment that tired old No Kings boomers will never have to navigate.
—Newsweek Contributors, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
Feeling tired is not a typical sign of high blood pressure and is more often linked to other issues like poor sleep, depression, or low blood pressure.
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Plus, their fabric and fill are less likely to accrue that ever-darkening yellowish stain that tired goose down pillows acquire over time, thanks to sweat, oils, lotion residues, etc.
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Two shivering dogs now sat in her backseat, exhausted but safe.—
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Surely that has increasing resonance among the politically exhausted and spiritually disenchanted.—
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At the opening, Natalie, bored and filled with loathing for her parents, flees her family home by retreating into imaginary worlds of vivid, eroticized violence.—
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The kids got bored with it in nanoseconds, but word got out in the blue jay community that a peanut paradise had sprung up in our yard and to come on over!—
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Later, Lenape artist Joe Baker places cutout photographs of his ancestors over the stereotyped images of Native Americans found in the wallpaper.—
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Several leaders described the pressure of being both highly visible and easily stereotyped.—
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With some estimates putting wave heights as much as 35 feet, weakened hatch covers would have been vulnerable to such waves.—
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The years of horrific violence have weakened Sudan, plunging its institutions into chaos and making its population more vulnerable and poorer.—
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For the Los Angeles premiere of Marty Supreme, the two wore custom Chrome Hearts looks.—
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Emma Stone wore comfy, but sophisticated silk pants to a Louis Vuitton event in New York.—
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The waiting room is already over-flowing with bloodied, weary, apparently horrifically smelling patients.—
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The film follows a weary delivery driver with months to live who saves a brilliant but troubled teenage girl.—
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This leaves a sicker risk pool behind and drives premiums even higher for those who remain.—
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Humans who have prolonged close contact with sick or dead birds infected with HPAI are the most at risk of becoming infected.—
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This is actually better than some of the hackneyed rom-coms Reiner muddled through, a coming-of-age story about two kids’ pseudo-love story from grade school through middle school.—
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On the first real mission in the jungle region of Fury Green, Samus encounters a Galactic Federation technician named Myles Mackenzie who, from his reveal in the pre-release previews, became a sticking point for fans due to his hackneyed sidekick trappings.—
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“Tired.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tired. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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