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Adjective tired has 2 senses
- tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
Antonyms: rested, fresh, invigorated, refreshed, reinvigorated, untired, unwearied, unweary
- banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn - 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'"
Antonym: original (indirect, via unoriginal)
Verb tire has 4 senses
- tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade - get tired of something or somebody
--1 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue - exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
--2 is one way to indispose
Antonyms: refresh, freshen, refreshen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire - deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
--3 is one way to consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- bore, tire - cause to be bored
Sample sentence:
The performance is likely to tire Sue
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