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verb

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."

Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.

Fag v. i. (past & past part. fagged; pres. part. fagging)

1.

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

2.

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

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.

adjective

fagged adj.

1.

Same as burned-out, 1.

Synonyms: burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).

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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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