verb
- Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.
- usage: "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
- Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.
- usage: "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
- Deplete.
- usage: "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
- Cause to be bored.
adjective
- Depleted of strength or energy.
- usage: "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
- Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
- usage: "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'"
- synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn
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