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exhausted
adjective as in extremely tired
Strong matches
beat, bushed, debilitated, enervated, frazzled, limp, prostrated, sapped, shot, spent, wasted, wearied, worn
Weak matches
all in, bleary, bone-weary, dead tired, dog-tired, done for, done in, had it, kaput, out on one's feet, outta gas, ready to drop, run down, tired out, worn-out
Example Sentences
At some point you will get exhausted and, seeing that you have made only the tiniest hole, you will want to quit.
Eventually they grew too exhausted to continue insulting each other and dropped miserably off to sleep.
At last the exhausted Incorrigibles were ready to stumble back to the nursery and be still.
“Don’t tell me you two are in cahoots! How cheeky. Does that mean we can go to bed now? I am quite exhausted; what a dull evening it has been.”
One diver died from the bends, two others had become permanently disabled, and the rest involved in the grueling enterprise were exhausted.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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