FAGGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fagged mean? 

• FAGGED (adjective)
  The adjective FAGGED has 1 sense:

1. drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

  Familiarity information: FAGGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAGGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted

Synonyms:

dog-tired; exhausted; fagged; fatigued; gone; played out; spent; washed-out; worn-out; worn out

Context example:

you look worn out

Similar:

tired (depleted of strength or energy)

 Context examples 

“You look tired and fagged, Fanny. You have been walking too far.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Such kind friends, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one must always find agreeable, though every body seemed rather fagged after the morning's party.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

On the other hand, a man should be at his very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not wish to do it when fagged by a long journey.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked about the streets where the best shops for ladies were, I haunted the Bazaar like an unquiet spirit, I fagged through the Park again and again, long after I was quite knocked up.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As we re-entered the carriage, and I sat back feverish and fagged, I remembered what, in the hurry of events, dark and bright, I had wholly forgotten—the letter of my uncle, John Eyre, to Mrs. Reed: his intention to adopt me and make me his legatee.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

His mind was fagged, and her happiness sprung from being the friend with whom it could find repose.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

There was only Harriet, who seemed not in spirits herself, fagged, and very willing to be silent; and Emma felt the tears running down her cheeks almost all the way home, without being at any trouble to check them, extraordinary as they were.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

While Mary drew, Diana pursued a course of encyclopaedic reading she had (to my awe and amazement) undertaken, and I fagged away at German, he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He inquired next after her family, especially William: and his kindness altogether was such as made her reproach herself for loving him so little, and thinking his return a misfortune; and when, on having courage to lift her eyes to his face, she saw that he was grown thinner, and had the burnt, fagged, worn look of fatigue and a hot climate, every tender feeling was increased, and she was miserable in considering how much unsuspected vexation was probably ready to burst on him.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This threat was so palpably disregarded, that though within five minutes afterwards the three boys all burst into the room together and sat down, Fanny could not consider it as a proof of anything more than their being for the time thoroughly fagged, which their hot faces and panting breaths seemed to prove, especially as they were still kicking each other's shins, and hallooing out at sudden starts immediately under their father's eye.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)