bushed

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bushed

 (bo͝osht)
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.]
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bushed

(bʊʃt)
adj
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
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bushed

(bʊʃt)

adj.
1. overgrown with bushes.
2. Informal. exhausted; tired out.
[1485–95]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.bushed - very tiredbushed - 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"
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bushed

adjective
Informal. Extremely tired:
Informal: beat, tuckered (out).
Slang: done in, fagged (out), pooped (out).
Idioms: all in, ready to drop.
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Translations

bushed

[bʊʃt] ADJ
1. (= exhausted) → agotado, hecho polvo; (= puzzled) → perplejo, pasmado
2. (Australia) → perdido en el monte
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bushed

[ˈbʊʃt] adj (= exhausted) → crevé(e), claqué(e)
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bushed

adj (inf: = exhausted) → groggy (inf)
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bushed

[bʊʃt] adj (fam) (exhausted) → distrutto/a
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bushed

a. pop. [exhausted] hecho polvo; agotado-a, molido-a, exhausto-a.
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