tarred out
tarred out is the simple past and past participle of tar out.
tarred out is the pronunciation spelling of tired out.
Meaning of tar out
Verb
tar out (third-person singular simple present tars out, present participle tarring out, simple past and past participle tarred out)
- To punish; to pay back or take revenge on.
- We had him stopped the year before, the time we whupped him at Stone's River at the end of Sixty-two: we tarred him out so bad he had to wait.1937, Thomas Wolfe, Chickamauga
- Synonyms:
- castigate, penalize, get back at, retaliate, amerce, chasten, chastise, come down on, correct, fix someone's wagon
Meaning of tired out
Adjective
tired out (comparative more tired out, superlative most tired out)
- Feeling exhausted; out of energy due to exhaustion.
Forms of tarred out
| comparative | more tarred out |
|---|---|
| superlative | most tarred out |
Origin of tarred out
From tar out.
From tired out.
Questions about tarred out
- What is tarred out the simple past and past participle of?
- Tarred out is the simple past and past participle of tar out.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: tarred out (page history and authors); tar out (page history and authors); tired out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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