to overtire

Examples

• All

• You should take a break before you become overtired from studying too long.

• "When you're a tourist, you eat too much, and you drink too much, and you overtire yourself seeing too much," the third man said.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Lack of sleep, or being overtired, can cause an increase in night terrors for your young child.

  Blog text (2)

• He's just overtired, I think.

  Fiction book (1993)

• We don't want her to get overtired.

  Fiction book (1992)

• You'd better go to bed, dear, or you'll be overtired.

  The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

• Schedule the child's testimony at a time when he or she won't be overtired.

  Academic text (2003)

• The first week was a crazy mixture of overtired jet lag and hyper-excitement.

  Blog text (23)

• After the hike, she felt overtired and needed to rest for the afternoon.

• If you play outside all day, you might get overtired and not enjoy your evening.

Synonyms

E

to exhaust

vsto overtire

194 3.2

To make someone very tired

is aimed specifically at causing excessive tiredness from effort or rest loss

W

to wear out

vsto overtire

19 2.7

To make a person very tired or a thing stop working by using it too much

focuses more on creating excessive tiredness rather than long-term damage

O

to overwork

vsto overtire

15 4.1

To make someone work too much so they become very tired or ill

is wider, describing causing exhaustion from overexertion or from lack of rest

F

to fatigue

vsto overtire

11 4.6

To make someone very tired by hard work or long effort

is narrower, stressing exhaustion caused by effort or lack of rest

T

to tire out

vsto overtire

10 2.1

To make a person very tired by using up their energy

emphasizes causing excessive tiredness specifically from overexertion or poor rest

T

to tucker

vsto overtire

• Informal

8 9.4

To make someone very tired

is a neutral description of causing exhaustion without informal tone

T

to tucker out

vsto overtire

• Informal

7 7.7

To make someone very tired

is the neutral term for causing excessive tiredness in general

R

to run ragged

vsto overtire

• Informal

2 6.3

To make someone very tired by giving them too much to do

covers exhausting by overexertion or lack of rest beyond just heavy work

O

to overfatigue

vsto overtire

8.4

To make someone very tired so they cannot work or think well

is the general verb for exhausting through overexertion or lack of rest

O

to overweary

vsto overtire

• Archaic

9.5

To make someone very tired by doing too much without rest

is the broader term covering exhaustion from exertion or poor rest

O

to overtired

vsto overtire

3.5

To make someone very sleepy from too much activity

focuses on causing exhaustion rather than the resulting state

R

to run off someone's feet

vsto overtire

• UK

7.1

To make someone very busy and tired with too much work

is broader, applying to exhaustion from many causes not only too much work

Antonyms

R

to rest

816 1.0

To stop activity to relax or sleep and get energy back

How Tiring

to exhaust

194 3.2

to overtire

3 6.8

to wear out

19 2.7

to tire

23 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology