TUCKER (OUT) Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

tucker (out)

verb

ˈtə-kər

Definition of tucker (out)

as in to wear

to use up all the physical energy of we're hoping that the mountain bike ride will tucker the kids out so they'll sleep well tonight

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All officers on the scenes of vehicle stops must wear and activate their body cameras, under the guidance.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
To balance its titular genres—to portray Bogart as playing Spider-Man—the show needed an actor who would neither wear the role like a suit nor find it within himself.

— Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of wear

Verb

On the politics, his statement summons a legacy-killing disaster by wagering that nothing will go wrong, when something likely will go wrong during his presidency.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Oct. 2026
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, was founded in 1980 by a mother whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an intoxicated driver.

— Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of kill

Verb

The point is not to tire yourself out, just to feel your body getting warm.

— Dana Santas, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2026
While the concept has always had Fox shocks, it was first seen with Maxxis rubber, and subsequently with Schwalbe Tacky Chan downhill tires on DT Swiss wheels last year.

— Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of tire

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Unsurprisingly, Chinese researchers have predicted that the main urban pension fund covering some 500 million urban workers, retirees, and cadres will be exhausted by the mid-2030s.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
In June, the NCAA ruled the class of 2022 had exhausted their eligibility.

— PJ Green October 2, Kansas City Star, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhaust

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According to Workplace Strategies for Mental Health, 39% of Canadian employees report feeling burned out, up from 35% in 2023.

— Naira Velumyan, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Move too quickly and organizations burn out, make avoidable mistakes, or outrun their capabilities.

— Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of burn out

Verb

On a dry summer day, workers ran for their lives as a deluge of water knocked out pumps and electrical equipment.

— Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
The Rise Of Proxy Cyber Warfare Nations are weaponizing cyberattacks to knock out critical infrastructure, from power grids to communications networks.

— Steve Durbin, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of knock out

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Shawn and his father found the man on the easternmost coast of their island shortly after dusk, when the sky was drained of almost all its orange light and the waves had grown dark, topped with an eerie froth.

— Rachel Heng, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026
The road Game 3 win reigns supreme in Liberty lore after Sabrina Ionescu drained a 28-foot game-winning dagger.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of drain

Verb

Six years later, the Maine electorate is worn out by Trump, but polls still show the race as a tossup.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 6 Oct. 2026
Standard asphalt shingles across whole neighborhoods built in the same era wear out at roughly the same pace, and a wave of replacement decisions is now landing on owners who haven’t given their roof a second thought since closing day.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of wear out

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