Definition of Overtired

1. Verb. (past of overtire) ¹

2. Adjective. Overly tired ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Overtired

1. overtire [v] - See also: overtire

Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtired

overtightening
overtightens
overtilde
overtildes
overtime
overtime period
overtimed
overtimes
overtimid
overtiming
overtip
overtipped
overtipping
overtips
overtire
overtired (current term)
overtiredness
overtires
overtiring
overtitle
overtitled
overtitles
overtitling
overtly
overtness
overtnesses
overtoil
overtoiled
overtoiling
overtoils

Literary usage of Overtired

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sunday Magazine by Thomas Guthrie, William Garden Blaikie, Benjamin Waugh (1878)
"overtired. Of failing to cheer the fad, Of failing to touch the sinful. ... 'Tis only the cry of a weary child, overtired and overdriven. FIDELIS. ..."

2. Note-book of an Adopted Mother: Experience in the Home Training of a Boy by Eleanor Davids (1903)
"Being overtired, he would rebel at the cleaning up which had to precede dinner, be disagreeable at the table, and when tucked into bed would have long ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"That is why overtired people are always on the move; the mind will not allow the body to rest, but drags it about in a ceaseless search for the repose which ..."

4. Westways: A Village Chronicle by Silas Weir Mitchell (1913)
"I have walked too far for me, I am overtired, John." What it felt to be overtired, John hardly knew. ..."

5. Composition, Oral and Written by Charles Sears Baldwin (1909)
"The periodic form is naturally adapted to such sentences of result. Though in conversation we might say, He was overtired, * that he took cold; ..."

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