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bone tired

bone tired is the alternative spelling of bone-tired.

Meaning of bone-tired

Adjective

bone-tired (not generally comparable, comparative more bone-tired, superlative most bone-tired)

  1. (not comparable, usually) Very tired; so tired one feels it in one’s bones.
    • Having escaped from the Lac-house in Varanavat after setting fire to it, when the Pandavas, along with their mother Kunti, reached across the Ganga, they were bone-tired and thirsty.1998, B. K. Chaturvedi, Eklavya, page 38

Forms of bone tired

comparativemore bone tired
superlativemost bone tired

Questions about bone tired

What is bone tired the alternative spelling of?
Bone tired is the alternative spelling of bone-tired.

Words near bone tired in the dictionary

  1. bone spavins
  2. bone spur
  3. bone spurs
  4. bone structure
  5. bone structures
  6. bone tired
  7. bone tissue
  8. bone to pick
  9. bone turquoise
  10. bone turquoises
  11. bone up

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