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tired

 adjective
     
tired S1 W2
1 feeling that you want to sleep or rest
so tired (that)
I'm so tired I could sleep for a week.
too tired to do something
He was too tired to argue.
He looks tired out (=very tired).
'No,' Frank said in a tired voice.
2

tired of (doing) something

bored with something, because it is no longer interesting, or has become annoying:
I'm tired of watching television; let's go for a walk.
I was getting tired of all her negative remarks.
3 familiar and boring:
tired old speeches
—tiredness noun [uncountable]
—tiredly adverb
➔ dog-tired

➔ be sick (and tired) of something

at sick1 (6)
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