The Clue
"Beat" (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TIRED
Tags
Notes
The answer TIRED is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.
Related Clues
All in
Beat
Bushed
Clichéd
Drowsy
Exhausted
Hackneyed
Jaded
Rundown
Shopworn
Spent
Stale
Trite
Weary
With 34D, spent
Far from fresh
Like chestnuts
Out of gas
Played out
Pooped out
Ready for bed
Ready for the bunk
Sick's partner
Wiped out
Worn out
All tuckered out
Ready to hit the sack
"Give me your ___ . . . ": Lazarus
"Give me your ___, your poor . . . "
Like one who's tried too hard
Definition
TIRE as a verb:
1. (tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade) = get tired of something or somebody
2. (tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue) = exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
3. (run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire) = deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength"
4. (bore, tire) = cause to be bored
TIRED as an adjective:
1. depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
2. (banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn) = repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"