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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



... any rate now they could rest, Mrs. Dallow and Nick and she, and she was glad Nick was going to stay for a little quiet. She liked Harsh best when it was not en fete: then one could see what a sympathetic old place it was. She hoped Nick was not dreadfully fagged—she feared Julia was completely done up. Julia, however, had transported her exhaustion to the grounds—she was wandering about somewhere. She thought more people would be coming to the house, people from ...
— The Tragic Muse • Henry James
... cousin had come up from the city, slightly more fagged and sardonic than usual, and as he stretched himself out in the big porch-chair he was even more caustic than was his wont about the bareness and emotional sterility of the lives ...
— Hillsboro People • Dorothy Canfield
... as well as a batsman, and Robarts was the Westonian wicket-keeper, so that both were somewhat fagged when they first went in, whereas they were now quite fresh. Again, the Hillsburian bowling champion found his dangerous left arm a little stiff, and his eyesight not so keen as it had been an hour before. One is bound to find a cause for ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
... so. It got to be worse and worse; more spirits and more voices. They were about me all the time; at first only in the night, then in the day too. They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no ...
— A Double Barrelled Detective Story • Mark Twain
... Councils in every body in the world mean division of opinion, personal frictions, ugly outbursts of temper, from which even the celestial minds of political leaders are not entirely free. Anyhow Mr. Gladstone looked pale, fagged, and even a little dejected. You—simple man—who are only acquainted with human nature in its brighter and better manifestations, would rush to the conclusion that the sight of the greatest man of his time in his eighty-fourth year, thus wan, wearied, pathetic, would appeal ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor


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