Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective same as
burned-out , 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
fag .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted
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Examples
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But it is also important in its relation to work, for without it body and mind become "fagged," people grow "stale" at their work, producing power and power of service are reduced.
Community Civics and Rural Life Arthur William Dunn 1897
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So we learn Louis Theroux "fagged" for Lib Dem's great hope at Westminster School.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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So we learn Louis Theroux "fagged" for Lib Dem's great hope at Westminster School.
mirror.co.uk - Home 2010
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There was _no_ other monitor who did not try to be of some use to his fags; many of the monitors, by quiet kindnesses and useful hints, by judicious help and unselfish sympathy, were of most real service to the boys who nominally "fagged" for them, but who, in point of fact, were required to do nothing except taking an occasional message, seeing that the study fires did not go out, and carrying up the tea and breakfast for a week each, in order of rotation.
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The dogs had been fagged out early in the afternoon, but they now began to show new vigor.
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The dogs had been fagged out early in the afternoon, but they now began to show new vigor.
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She might be keen on all that, but many women in their 60s may be thanking God that all that stuff is over, they need never be fagged with it again, and they certainly don't want to be glaring at Sigourney, or anyone else, being "sexually active" all over the big screen.
Sexually active women in their 60s? Spare me | Michele Hanson 2011
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If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010
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Remember to vote down and fagged all trolls today.
Think Progress » Florida Lawmaker Attempts To Deny Tax Credit To Movies Filmed With Gay Characters 2010
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If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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