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Fagged

adjective

1.

Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted. Synonyms: dog-tired, exhausted, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn-out, worn out. "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

verb

(past & past part. fagged; pres. part. fagging)

1.

Act as a servant for older boys, in British public schools.

2.

Work hard. Synonyms: dig, drudge, grind, labor, labour, moil, toil, travail. "Lexicographers drudge all day long"

3.

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. Synonyms: fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.

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"Fagged" Quotes from Famous Books

... Harrington, and if my wants went ahead of what they had there, I should say that my wants were going too far and ought to be curbed! And so you took those poor old Thorpedyke women with you. I expect they must be nearly fagged out. I don't see how the oldest one ever stood being dragged from store to store all over New York, as she must have been! She's a pretty old woman and can't be expected to stand even what another woman, younger ...

— Mrs. Cliff's Yacht • Frank R. Stockton

... was speaking nearly every night now that the day of election was drawing near. This, together with the work of editing the paper and the strain of the battle, told heavily on a vitality never too much above par. He would come back to his rooms fagged out, often dejected because some friend ...

— The Vision Spendid • William MacLeod Raine

... voice from behind the table, and the little girl, fagged but blissful, came forward smilingly, a long, brown-paper package ...

— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

... retained it faithfully through his life. Through the school and through the world, whithersoever his strange fortune led this erring, wayward, affectionate creature, Joseph Addison was always his head boy. Addison wrote his exercises. Addison did his best themes. He ran on Addison's messages: fagged for him and blacked his shoes: to be in Joe's company was Dick's greatest pleasure; and he took a sermon or a caning from his monitor with the most boundless ...

— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray

... been brought up on it in the dog pit. The pure air of Long Island, and the usual environment of his new home, did not wean him from it. He had not been long in our house before he took to absenting himself for days and nights at a time, returning ragged and fagged out, as if from a long spree. We found out, by accident, that he spent those vacations in a low saloon a mile up the plank road, which he had probably located on one of his excursions through the country to extend his doctrine of evolution. It was the conductor ...

— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

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