| gruelling | | |
| adj. | 1. arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome | characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort.; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" |
| ~ effortful | requiring great physical effort. |
| frazzle | | |
| n. (state) | 1. frazzle | a state of extreme exhaustion.; "he was worn to a frazzle" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ exhaustion | extreme fatigue. |
| v. (contact) | 2. fray, frazzle | wear away by rubbing.; "The friction frayed the sleeve" |
| ~ fall apart, wear out, bust, wear, break | go to pieces.; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" |
| v. (body) | 3. frazzle | exhaust physically or emotionally.; "She was frazzled after the visit of her in-laws" |
| ~ exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| weary | | |
| v. (body) | 1. fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary | exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" |
| ~ indispose | cause to feel unwell.; "She was indisposed" |
| ~ exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up, beat | wear out completely.; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" |
| ~ overfatigue, overtire, overweary | tire excessively. |
| ~ fatigue, jade, tire, weary, pall | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| v. (body) | 2. fatigue, jade, pall, tire, weary | lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" |
| ~ degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop | grow worse.; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match" |
| ~ poop out, conk out, peter out, run down, run out | use up all one's strength and energy and stop working.; "At the end of the march, I pooped out" |
| ~ retire, withdraw | lose interest.; "he retired from life when his wife died" |
| adj. | 3. aweary, weary | physically and mentally fatigued.; "`aweary' is archaic" |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
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