to tucker
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9.4
- verb
- /ˈtʌkər/
- Informal
:
agotar
- The long hike up the mountain really tuckered me; I could hardly keep my eyes open afterward.
- look tuckered
- seem tuckered
- too tuckered
Examples
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Zane is plum tuckered out.
Blog text (13) -
Aw, are you all tuckered out?
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Last night I was so tuckered out I was sleeping and sleeping.
Fiction book (1990) -
Aw, he's all tuckered out.
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"I'd ask you along, but you look plum tuckered out."
Fiction book (1993) -
"I'm tuckered out from guessing," I said.
Fiction book (2001) -
Well, you look plumb tuckered out there, Tex.
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If you're tuckered out, too, we'll be wasting everybody's time.
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I'm all tuckered out.
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He's just tuckered out.
Synonyms
194
3.2
To make someone very tired
64
6.0
To make someone very tired
27
4.1
Slowly make a person or thing weaker by repeated pressure
23
1.0
To become very tired or make someone very tired
19
2.7
To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much
15
4.1
To make someone work too much so they become very tired or ill
11
4.6
To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort
10
2.1
To make a person very tired by using up their energy
7
7.7
To make someone very tired
5
7.5
Make someone very tired by giving them too much work
4
4.4
To make someone or yourself very tired after long effort
3
6.8
To make someone very tired by doing too much
2
6.3
To make someone very tired by giving them too much to do
2
9.0
Make someone feel weak and without energy
1
5.4
Make someone very tired by giving them too much to do
1
6.7
To make someone very tired or stressed
1
8.6
To make someone feel very tired, weak, or sad
To make someone very busy and tired with too much work
To do very hard, long tasks until you are very tired
To make someone very tired so they cannot work or think well
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How Tired
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Etymology
Tucker is used in the phrase 'tuckered out' to mean 'to make someone very tired'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of being so worn down by work or activity that you are completely 'tuckered', and the word likely comes from older uses of tuck about hard work or pulling, which is why it now means 'exhaust'.