The Clue
Pooped out (5 letter answer)
The Answer
TIRED
Tags
Notes
The answer TIRED is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.
Related Clues
Old-hat
Beat
Bushed
Clichéd
"Dead"
Done in
Effete
Exhausted
Flagged
Hackneyed
Jaded
Rundown
Shopworn
Spent
Stale
Weary
With 34D, spent
Far from fresh
Needing a respite
Out of gas
Played out
Ready for bed
Ready for the bunk
Wiped out
Worn out
All tuckered out
Ready to hit the sack
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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'"