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worn out
a played out deck of cards -
drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
the day's shopping left her exhausted
only worn-out horses and cattle
you look worn out
was fagged and sweaty
he went to bed dog-tired
felt completely washed-out
the trembling of his played out limbs
How To Use played out In A Sentence
- you and your fellow misogynistic homophobes masquerading as "traditionalist anglicans" have played out the string. Breakaway Fort Worth group responds to Episcopal Church lawsuit | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
- ‘Irony’ in its original form is the will of the fates or gods played out through the lives of mortals.
- These issues are being played out in Britain because it has become the focus of this incendiary global conflict.
- I replied that we daren't go until we saw a reasonable chance (if I knew anything, we'd wait a long time for one), and so we bandied it to and fro and got no forrarder, and finally went to bed, played out. The Sky Writer
- The disparity is played out on a bigger scale between cities. Times, Sunday Times
- The game was played out althongh the light was bad.
- The game was played out althongh the light was bad.
- It was a homemade Shakespearean tragedy being played out among our own pasteboard pavilions.
- As her other children - Ben, nine, and Kylie, six - played outside, only a chesty cough betrayed their mum's desperate struggle.
- Even while the military endgame played out in Abidjan, post-conflict development specialists were presumably drawing up plans for interventions such as disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration, security sector reform, and resettlement of refugees and internally displaced persons. Ivory Coast's development failures | Mike McGovern