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English Dictionary: tired by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tired
adj
  1. depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
    Antonym(s): 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'"
    Synonym(s): banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tired \Tired\, a.
      Weary; fatigued; exhausted.
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