TUCKERED (OUT) Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in exhausted

depleted in strength, energy, or freshness tuckered out after a long day of playing tennis

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tuckered (out)

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verb

past tense of tucker (out)

as in wore

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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Adjective

Even Musk, despite his vow to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy, seemed exhausted by the vastness of what his Department of Government Efficiency had taken on, and abandoned DOGE over a year earlier than planned.

— Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Create healthy boundaries around activities that might leave you feeling depleted or exhausted, such as unnecessary social media scrolling.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of exhausted

Verb

The singer wore a black hoodie and appeared to be half-covered with a blanket.

— Edward Segarra, USA Today, 19 Aug. 2026
While the bride wore a satin, strapless Danielle Frankel wedding gown for the ceremony, the voluminous, floor-length skirt obscured her shoes on her big day.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of wore

Adjective

His handicapping merited attention and newsletter sales, but Steele soon tired of tipping his own hand to the oddsmakers in Vegas.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
More and more young people are turning toward low- or no-tech lives, tired of the endless scroll most of us face for hours each day.

— Greta Cross, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of tired

Verb

Prosecutors allege Shakur was killed to avenge the rapper's entourage attacking Davis' nephew, Anderson, a few hours earlier at the MGM Grand after a boxing match involving Mike Tyson.

— CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
Forty of those have been delivered, Skibitskiy said, and two are suspected to have been used in Radushne, in the Dnipro Region, on 30 July in an attack that killed at least four children from the same family.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of killed

Adjective

The ban, however, wiped out a crop that provided a large share of rural income, without real alternative livelihoods, and in some cases, through force.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Adapt to survive Along with a warming trend pushing harvesting seasons earlier, European wine growers are up against drought, freak weather events such as spring hailstorms and frost which wiped out many buds, and wildfires.

— Jenni Reid, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of wiped out

Verb

Rojo Neog left his house in India's Assam state on the evening of July 19 to buy candles after heavy rain knocked out electricity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Afternoon storms with high winds across Central Arkansas on Monday knocked out power for roughly 27,000 customers, according to Entergy.

— Daniel McFadin, Arkansas Online, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of knocked out

Adjective

By late afternoon in the summer, the flowers are already tapped out, having used their energy for the day.

— Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 31 July 2026
For every compelling reason to believe the consumer is tapped out, there's an equally compelling reason to believe the opposite.

— Josh Brown,Sean Russo, CNBC, 2 July 2026

Definition of tapped out

Verb

That Febreze bottle is empty and the scented candle burned out — the current Giants’ stink punches you right in the nose, mouth and eyes.

— Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 17 Aug. 2026
And in British Columbia, Canada, which borders Washington, the Bald Range Fire burned out of control, nearly doubling overnight as residents raced out.

— Jonathan Vigliotti, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of burned out

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