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tired
adjective
Depleted of strength or energy
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taɪɚd
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adjective
Depleted of strength or energy
“Tired mothers with crying babies”
adjective
Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
“His remarks were trite and commonplace”
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Tired mothers with crying babies
Too tired to eat
His remarks were trite and commonplace
Hackneyed phrases
A stock answer
Repeating threadbare jokes
Parroting some timeworn axiom
The trite metaphor ‘hard as nails’
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