tired out

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1. Also, tired to death. Exhausted, as in She looked tired out after that trip, or He came home tired to death. The first term dates from the second half of the 1500s; the second, a hyperbole, was first recorded in 1740. Also see sick and tired; to death.

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tired out

A 6 July letter from high-ranking congressman Jamie Raskin was made public on Thursday, where the Maryland representative compared the president to a baseball pitcher whose arm has "tired out".

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2024

“I mean, I was a little oblivious to what was going on. I was dead tired out there, just grinding and trying to do my best to stop them,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 10, 2022

But teachers seemed, he said, “a bit tired out and rightly so.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2020

In addition, the earliest years are a stressful period in which parents, especially poorer mothers, are worked to the bone or simply tired out by their kids.

From Slate ● Sep. 2, 2020

Quite apart from wanting to win, Harry found that he had fewer nightmares when he was tired out after training.

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling