What is "overtired"

Usage examples of "overtired".

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.

They were overtired, their nerves quivering like telegraph wires in the open country.

Dumarest leaned back, conscious of the quiver of overstrained muscles, the jerk of overtired nerves and knowing that he had driven them both too hard.