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How to pronounce tired in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn
Type Words
Derivation tiredness


tired mothers with crying babies.
too tired to eat.

Examples of tired

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Tired of hearing your brain is going to be mush by the time you're old and grey?
From the abcnews.go.com
I'm tired of watching us just throw the ball around and take a contested jumper.
From the omaha.com
I never get tired of it, but in San Francisco I'm lucky to have it once a month.
From the sfgate.com
I'm tired of working for Meijer for free, scanning and bagging my own groceries.
From the freep.com
Are you a little tired of seeing the same sad-sack faces month in and month out?
From the cnn.com
I wake up most mornings feeling as tired as when I went to bed the night before.
From the kentucky.com
On the whole, they are tired of the squabbling between the London based parties.
From the ealingtimes.co.uk
We often come home from work and say we are tired and avoid exercising that day.
From the stltoday.com
They are still going to their jobs but accomplishing less because they're tired.
From the sciencedaily.com
More examples
  • Depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
  • Banal: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
  • (tiredly) in a weary manner; "he walked around tiredly"
  • (tiredness) fatigue: temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell ...
  • (tiring) exhausting: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
  • The following is an episode list for the MTV animated television series Beavis and Butt-head. The series has its roots in 1992 when Mike Judge created two animated shorts - "Frog Baseball" and "Peace, Love & Understanding" - which were later aired on Liquid Television.
  • TIRED was the first studio album by MONKEY MAJIK. It was released on May 13, 2002 as a Limited Edition EP.
  • "Tired" is the fourth release from Adele's number one album 19. It was released only in Spain. Its popularity in this country was due to a Heineken campaign using the song.
  • (Tiredness) Fatigue (also called exhaustion, lethargy, languidness, languor, lassitude, and listlessness) is a state of awareness describing a range of afflictions, usually associated with physical and/or mental weakness, though varying from a general state of to a specific work-induced burning ...