ENGLISH: tired - CREOLE: fatige



Overview of verb tire



The verb tire has 4 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)



1. (3) tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade -- (get tired of something or somebody)

2. (3) tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue -- (exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike")

3. run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire -- (deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength")

4. bore, tire -- (cause to be bored)



Overview of adj tired



The adj tired has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)



1. (9) tired -- (depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat")

2. 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'")

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