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Definition of Played out

1. Adjective. Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted. "You look worn out"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Played Out

Literary usage of Played out

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... played out. The man who ten years back, and one year later, was looked on as a miscreant outside the law, was sent by them to an island two days' ..."

2. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"I BANTER THE PLAYED-OUT HUMOURIST QUIXOTIC is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for ..."

3. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"My Dear Mr. Nast: J. iy J ' -, A NATIONAL GAME THAT IS played out Z. Chandler. But Nast did not follow the suggestion. He was opposed on principle to using ..."

4. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1863 One remains here and there, a played-out man, whom circumstances have restrained from going on to absolute suicide.—JG Holland, ' Letters to the ..."

5. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"A Old Played-Out Song IT'S the curiousest thing in creation, Whenever I hear that old song "Do They Miss Me at Home," I'm so bothered, My life seems as ..."

6. Book Auction Recordsby Frank Karslake by Frank Karslake (1906)
"... is probably at last played-out tbe matter can rest where it is. If be should ever raise his head again I have only lo ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... theparty first there may claim the privilege of holing out, and any party coming up must wait till the other party ban played out the hole, ..."

8. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... played out. The man who ten years back, and one year later, was looked on as a miscreant outside the law, was sent by them to an island two days' ..."

9. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"I BANTER THE PLAYED-OUT HUMOURIST QUIXOTIC is his enterprise and hopeless his adventure is, Who seeks for ..."

10. Thomas Nast: His Period and His Pictures by Albert Bigelow Paine (1904)
"My Dear Mr. Nast: J. iy J ' -, A NATIONAL GAME THAT IS played out Z. Chandler. But Nast did not follow the suggestion. He was opposed on principle to using ..."

11. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1863 One remains here and there, a played-out man, whom circumstances have restrained from going on to absolute suicide.—JG Holland, ' Letters to the ..."

12. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"A Old Played-Out Song IT'S the curiousest thing in creation, Whenever I hear that old song "Do They Miss Me at Home," I'm so bothered, My life seems as ..."

13. Book Auction Recordsby Frank Karslake by Frank Karslake (1906)
"... is probably at last played-out tbe matter can rest where it is. If be should ever raise his head again I have only lo ..."

14. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"... theparty first there may claim the privilege of holing out, and any party coming up must wait till the other party ban played out the hole, ..."

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