From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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,
old-hat, shopworn, {stock(a)}, threadbare, timeworn,
tired, trite, well-worn]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Tired \Tired\, a.
Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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.
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