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Overtire

Overtire \O`ver*tire"\, v. t. To tire to excess; to exhaust.

Overtire

Overtire \O`ver*tire"\, v. t. To become too tired.
--Br. Hall.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
overtire

1550s, from over- + tire (v.). Related: Overtired; overtiring.\n

Wiktionary
overtire

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To tire excessively 2 (context intransitive English) To become excessively tired

WordNet
overtire

v. tire excessively [syn: overweary, overfatigue]

Usage examples of "overtire".

I also found out that overtired children are often too tense to sleep.

Will everyone enjoy themselves, or will you end up with overtired and cranky children for the rest of the night and perhaps the next day?

If I wait for them, they move into overtired before I can get all three of them down.

Then you can plan to spend time with a well-rested child in the morning, rather than a crabby, overtired one at night.

What you will also discover as you allow your infant more opportunities to sleep is that the catnappers, who tend to nap only twenty or thirty minutes, begin to elongate their naps, because they are not overtired and on alert.

Accustomed to a really hard life in London, Erica almost laughed at the idea of being overtired by such a short journey.

Whenever I get overtired, I just concentrate on the house Dante and I are saving for.

Now the slurred tongue was querulous, edging on a whine like an overtired child.

I hope the rest of your day is free from weary, overtired females, but Miss Ahearn and I both thank you for your help.

As the miles went by the horses became overtired, stumbling on the rough road and stubbornly slowing down.

What you will also discover as you allow your infant more opportunities to sleep is that the catnappers, who tend to nap only twenty or thirty minutes, begin to elongate their naps, because they are not overtired and on alert.

First they thought I might be in labor, and then they thought I might have preeclampsia, but in the end they decided I was just a bit overtired and dehydrated.

Maybe he was just overtired, but somehow, looking at the curlings of the Chagrian’s naked head-tentacles as they twisted across his chest, he found himself hop­ing that Obi-Wan hadn’t been lying to him about Sidious.

The more cultivated, specialized, overtired that Castalian intellectuality became, the more the world inclined to let the Province be and to regard it not as a necessity, as daily bread, but as a foreign body, something to be a little proud of, like a precious antique which for the time being the owners would not like to give up or give away, but which they would happily keep stored in the attic.

Always overtired, they had shortened their speech to such a point that Lacaud sometimes failed to understand what the three partners were talking about.