overtired

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He noted that children who are overtired can show symptoms that resemble ADHD, including difficulty paying attention in class or declining grades.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

I flicked through the document, which includes suggestions that participants were "underfed and overtired".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

Some of the people manning the system — no doubt overtired and pressing ahead—made the data-entry mistakes handling blocks of data that went through the system the following day.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020

He has learned to read Tecca’s moods carefully: if the young rapper appears overtired, Zappala will clear the schedules.

From The Guardian • Jan. 31, 2020

“Terrible things can happen when you’re overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman