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bushed

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bushed  (bsht)
adj. Informal
Extremely tired; exhausted: "I once stayed awake seven years on end. Not even a nap. Boy, was I bushed" (Martin Amis).

[Possibly from Australian slang, lost in the bush.]

bushed [bʊʃt]
adj Informal
1. (postpositive) extremely tired; exhausted
2. (Psychology) Canadian mentally disturbed from living in isolation, esp in the north
3. Austral and NZ lost or bewildered, as in the bush
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.bushed - very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
tired - depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat"
Translations
bushed [bʊʃt] ADJ
1. (= exhausted) → agotado, hecho polvo; (= puzzled) → perplejo, pasmado
2. (Australia) → perdido en el monte
bushed [ˈbʊʃt] adj (= exhausted) → crevé(e), claqué(e)
bushed
adj (inf: = exhausted) → groggy (inf)
bushed [bʊʃt] adj (fam) (exhausted) → distrutto/a
bushed [bʊʃt] adj (fam) (exhausted) → distrutto/a


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It was so long that it bushed out behind his ears, and made him look like the old portraits I remembered in Virginia.
I would tell the old fellow that I had missed my way and been bushed for hours, as I easily might have been, and had never got to Yea at all.
 
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