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    knackered
    [ˈnakərd]
    adjective
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    informal
    knackered (adjective)
    1. very tired; exhausted:
      "I'm knackered by the end of the day"
    2. severely damaged or broken:
      "he had seen Sonny flying around on a knackered old bike for the last two weeks"
    knack·er
    [ˈnakər]
    verb
    knackered (past tense) · knackered (past participle)
    1. tire (someone) out:
      "this weekend has really knackered me"
    2. damage (something) severely:
      "I knackered my ankle playing on Sunday"
    Origin
    late 16th century (originally denoting a harness-maker, then a slaughterer of horses): possibly from obsolete knack ‘trinket’. The word also had the sense ‘old worn-out horse’ (late 18th century). knacker may be from dialect knacker ‘castanet’, from obsolete knack ‘make a sharp abrupt noise’, of imitative origin. It is unclear whether the verb represents a figurative use of ‘slaughter’, from knacker, or of ‘castrate’, from knacker.
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    adjective
    1. very tired; exhausted:
      exhausted
      worn out
      weary
      dog-tired
      bone-tired
      bone-weary
      on one's last legs
      drained
      fatigued
      enervated
      debilitated
      spent
      jet-lagged
      out of breath
      breathless
      panting
      puffing
      puffed
      done in
      all in
      dead on one's feet
      beat
      dead beat
      shattered
      bushed
      frazzled
      bushwhacked
      whacked (out)
      shagged out
      jiggered
      pooped
      fried
      whipped
      gassed
      buggered
      rooted
      toilworn
      tired out
      ready to drop
      asleep on one's feet
      puffed out
      puffing and blowing
      gasping (for breath)
      fagged out
      knocked out
      wiped out
      running on empty
      zonked out
      worn to a frazzle
      wabbit
      tuckered out
      stonkered
      fordone
      Opposite:
      fresh as a daisy
      raring to go
    2. severely damaged or broken:
      broken
      damaged
      faulty
      defective
      unsound
      nonfunctioning
      malfunctioning
      inoperative
      broken-down
      out of kilter
      down
      on the blink
      kaput
      bust
      busted
      finished
      done for
      wonky
      dud
      duff
      buggered
      not working
      not functioning
      in disrepair
      out of order/commission
      not in working order
      on its last legs
      conked out
      acting/playing up
      gone haywire
      gone phut
      Opposite:
      working
      fixed
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