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be overtired
verb
To tire excessively
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What are the signs that you may be overtired?
Of course, for successful, driven individuals, claiming to be overtired is a great way to deflect envy and elicit sympathy.
He then apologises to Prior, who isn't angry, just disappointed, and wonders if he might be overtired or showing off to his friends.
When we make the mistake of stretching wakeful periods too long, it makes it very difficult to fall asleep because she will be overtired, and in fact wired!
If none of these tips work, your daughter may be overtired by bedtime, so try if at all possible to move her bedtime earlier by half hours at a time until it's 4pm.
If your child is having trouble sleeping, they may be overtired by the time they get to bed, or they're going to bed too early for their waking time.
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But he may have just been overtired.
We were overtired and overexcited, and we set upon the mini-bar with terrible abandon.
Employees who are overtired or preoccupied with neglected personal issues are unlikely to perform at their peak.
I could give more examples, but frankly – as so many of us have been these last 450 years – I am overtired.
If you know what it's like when your children are overtired, uninterested in focusing, and asking for three different things, magnify that by a factor of 5 or 10, and then try to teach math.
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