FAGGED

exhausted, dog-tired, fagged, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out, gone

(adjective) drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; “the day’s shopping left her exhausted”; “he went to bed dog-tired”; “was fagged and sweaty”; “the trembling of his played out limbs”; “felt completely washed-out”; “only worn-out horses and cattle”; “you look worn out”

FAG

tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; “We wore ourselves out on this hike”

labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil

(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”

fag

(verb) act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

fagged

simple past tense and past participle of fag

Source: Wiktionary


FAG

Fag n.

Definition: A knot or coarse part in cloth. [Obs.]

Fag, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Fagging.] Etym: [Cf. LG. fakk wearied, weary, vaak slumber, drowsiness, OFries. fai, equiv. to fach devoted to death, OS. f, OHG. feigi, G. feig, feige, cowardly, Icel. feigr fated to die, AS. f, Scot. faik, to fail, stop, lower the price; or perh. the same word as E. flag to droop.]

1. To become weary; to tire. Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag. G. Mackenzie.

2. To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. Read, fag, and subdue this chapter. Coleridge.

3. To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools. To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.

Fag, v. t.

1. To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.

2. Anything that fatigues. [R.] It is such a fag, I came back tired to death. Miss Austen. Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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