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TUCKER OUT
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wear out completely
Example:
He was all washed up after the exam
Synonyms:
beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up
Classified under:
Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care
Hypernyms (to "tucker out" is one way to...):
fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary (exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tucker out"):
frazzle (exhaust physically or emotionally)
play (exhaust by allowing to pull on the line)
kill (tire out completely)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
