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TIRED OF
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a strong distaste from surfeit
Example:
tired of the noise and smoke
Synonyms:
disgusted; fed up; sick; sick of; tired of
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
Context examples:
The answer was, "Oh, no; never; she has quite given up dancing. She had rather play. She is never tired of playing."
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
You are tired of telling potential love interests your life story.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
So Mother Holle very soon got tired of her, and told her she might go.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I try to be contented, but it is hard, and I'm tired of being poor.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Take care, or you will forget to be tired of it at the proper time.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The fact is, I suppose, that she is tired of Enscombe.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
She seemed to be tired of my questions: and, indeed, what claim had I to importune her?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I shall go with Dorothy, declared the Lion, for I am tired of your city and long for the woods and the country again.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
By that time she was tired of walking, and sat by the fire with her dress tucked up as usual.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Unless, of course, you have grown tired of my poor efforts.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
