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was overtired
verb
To tire excessively
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So at 7.50pm Hal was hungry and screaming, Georgia was overtired and screaming, and it was time for me to go for the pizza, leaving Cam to deal with the dynamic duo.
He took for granted that these difficulties were manifestations of their distress over the situation at home; he told them that their mother was overtired, that she had problems at work.
This week, on a chilly night when I was overtired, I felt a momentary flash of hopelessness, and wondered, as I so often do, whether I was slipping; for a petrifying instant, a lightning-quick flash, I wanted a car to run me over, and I had to clench my teeth to stay on the sidewalk until the light turned green.
Early on when we first entered the world of being a stroke family, the only time it was difficult to decipher speech was when she was overtired.
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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.
Of course, for successful, driven individuals, claiming to be overtired is a great way to deflect envy and elicit sympathy.
Employees who are overtired or preoccupied with neglected personal issues are unlikely to perform at their peak.
He then apologises to Prior, who isn't angry, just disappointed, and wonders if he might be overtired or showing off to his friends.
I could give more examples, but frankly – as so many of us have been these last 450 years – I am overtired.
We are overtired, as a nation.
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