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verb
Fag  v. t.  
1.
To tire by labor; to exhaust; as, he was almost fagged out.
2.
Anything that fatigues. (R.) "It is such a fag, I came back tired to death."
Brain fag. (Med.) See Cerebropathy.


Fag  v. i.  (past & past part. fagged; pres. part. fagging)  
1.
To become weary; to tire. "Creighton withheld his force till the Italian began to fag."
2.
To labor to wearness; to work hard; to drudge. "Read, fag, and subdue this chapter."
3.
To act as a fag, or perform menial services or drudgery, for another, as in some English schools.
To fag out, to become untwisted or frayed, as the end of a rope, or the edge of canvas.


adjective
fagged  adj.  
1.
Same as burned-out, 1.
Synonyms: burned-out(prenominal), burnt-out(prenominal), burned out(predicate), burnt out(predicate), exhausted, fatigued, played-out(prenominal), played out(predicate), spent, washed-out(prenominal), washed out(predicate), worn-out(prenominal), worn out(predicate).





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"Fagged" Quotes from Famous Books



... danger was imminent, and that nothing more could be done for the present, Mr Meldrum tried to induce Captain Dinks, who had been on deck for over forty-eight hours, to go below and have some rest, as he had a good deal yet before him to go through, and looked fagged and worn-out. ...
— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson
... carrying heavy burdens. In company they sing and carol blithely enough. When alone they are very taciturn, man and woman walking together, the man first with his lathee or staff, the woman behind carrying child or bundle, and often looking fagged ...
— Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier - Twelve Years Sporting Reminiscences of an Indigo Planter • James Inglis
... able to give you so little of my time. Working or tired out at night—letting you go out so much alone—but I haven't the heart to insist that you yawn over a book, while I am shut up here, or too fagged to talk even to you. Life is becoming a tragedy for business men—if they've got it in them to ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... poured down upon us, and I was glad to stay in the ambulance. It was at these times that my thoughts turned back to the East and to the blue sea and the green fields of God's country. I looked out at the men, who were getting pretty well fagged, and at the young officers whose uniforms were white with dust, and Frau Weste's words about glaenzendes Elend came to my mind. I fell to thinking: was the army life, then, only "glittering misery," and had I come to ...
— Vanished Arizona - Recollections of the Army Life by a New England Woman • Martha Summerhayes
... that the three should meet, for supper, at the same restaurant where they had lunched. Darrin was not there yet. It was nearly seven o'clock when Dave came in, looking fagged and worried. ...
— The High School Captain of the Team - Dick & Co. Leading the Athletic Vanguard • H. Irving Hancock


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