tired
verbDefinitions
simple past and past participle of tire
In need of some rest or sleep.
Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
- I'm tired of this
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Overused, cliché.
- a tired song
Old and worn.
- a tired-looking hotel room
Played out, ineffectual
Played out, ineffectual; incompetent.
- They even went so far as to question whether indigenous peoples are 'peoples' in a tired attempt to deny the status of indigenous peoples in order to deny their right to self-determination.
- A tired attempt at a smile worked its way across Akechi's lips, lopsided and faint.
Alternative form of tyred.
- From Lathrop hall, Madison’s steel tired locomobiles will take the picnickers out to the suburb of South Madison.
- I remember clearly the drive down Pennsylvania Avenue to the depot, the iron-tired wheels of our carriage rattling and bumping over the cobblestones.
The neighborhood
- neighborI am tired
- neighborthat tired feeling
Derived
bone-tired, born tired, dead tired, dog-tired, I'm tired, tired and emotional
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at tired. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at tired. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at tired
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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