overtired
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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
“That’s what I couldn’t wrap my head around. What happened? Was I overtired? And just, where did the wires not connect?”
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2021
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
“Terrible things can happen when you’re overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.”
From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman
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