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Answer : TIRED
tired – a
depleted of strength or energy; “tired mothers with crying babies”; “too tired to eat”
SYNONYMS
all in, aweary [archaic], beat, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], prostrate, spent, tapped out, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, weary, wiped out, worn, worn-out
EXAMPLES
“I know you must be tired, so I will let you rest.”
“The toddlers were both tired and cranky.”
“She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room.”
ETYMOLOGY
“exhausted, fatigued, weary,” early 15c., past-participle adjective from tire (v.).
tire (v.1)
“to weary,” also “to become weary,” Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian) “to fail, cease; become weary; make weary, exhaust,” of uncertain origin; according to Watkins possibly from Proto-Germanic *teuzon, from a suffixed form of PIE root *deu- (1) “to lack, be wanting.” Related: Tired; tiring.
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