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Example sentences from the Web for played outNo; Parlyment's a played-out fraud, flabby and footy, flat and faddy. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, July 25, 1891|Various Mr. Thorpe reflected to himself that the peerage was by no means so played-out an institution as some people imagined. The Market-Place|Harold Frederic Two gurl-probblems sniffing at Marriage, that played-out old farce—at sixteen! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, May 18th, 1895|Various It is so impossible to be young, Claude Melville said very wearily, and with his little air of played-out indifference. Bye-Ways|Robert Smythe Hichens
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2Exhausted, worn out, as in This was the third trip the mules had made, and they were utterly played out. [Mid-1800s] Words nearby played outplay date, playday, play doctor, Play-Doh, playdown, played out, player, player character, player piano, play fair, play false The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to played outwasted, finished, used, dead, lost, corny, drained, distressed, sleepy, overworked, fatigued, stale, bored, annoyed, irritated, exasperated, shabby, timeworn, tattered, threadbare |