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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
knackered
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I've been up since four o'clock this morning - I'm absolutely knackered!
▪ When you're training a team sometimes it's good to push them until they're knackered.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
knackered

"worn out, tired," past participle adjective from knacker (v.).

Wiktionary
knackered

Etymology 1

  1. (context UK Irish Australia New Zealand slang English) tired or exhausted. v

  2. (en-past of: knacker) Etymology 2

    a. (context UK Irish South Africa colloquial English) broken, inoperative.

WordNet
knackered

adj. very tired [syn: drained]

Usage examples of "knackered".

I do not know swearwords of sufficient obscenity to make this knackered old van keep up with a Harley.

It annoyed me that compared with some of these blokes, I was a bag of shit, sweating and knackered.

So they were wanging over fences as well, and all of them, even the PT instructor, were knackered.

Occupying an advantageous position at the corner of Duke Street and Piccadilly, it gave the impression that a palace of some kind had been dropped there by a gang of knackered djinn, and then been soldered on to the drabber buildings alongside.