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overtired

British  
/ ˌəʊvərˈtaɪəd /

adjective

  1. extremely tired; exhausted

    overtired and overworked
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He noted that children who are overtired can show symptoms that resemble ADHD, including difficulty paying attention in class or declining grades.

From Science Daily • Dec. 29, 2025

I flicked through the document, which includes suggestions that participants were "underfed and overtired".

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2024

I have to be careful not to get overheated or overtired.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2022

Some of the people manning the system — no doubt overtired and pressing ahead—made the data-entry mistakes handling blocks of data that went through the system the following day.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2020

Which was as emotional an outburst as I have ever heard from him, but I think he is overtired too.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

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