PLAYED OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does played out mean? 

• PLAYED OUT (adjective)
  The adjective PLAYED OUT has 2 senses:

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

2. worn out

  Familiarity information: PLAYED OUT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAYED OUT (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Worn out

Context example:

a played out deck of cards

Similar:

worn (affected by wear; damaged by long use)

 Context examples 

Rise, Miss Eyre: leave me; the play is played out'.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I struggled at the oars till I was played out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It was true the South Seas were calling to him, but he had a feeling that the game was not yet played out in the United States.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

By the time they made the Hootalinqua and good ice, Buck was played out.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

These two different hypotheses on what may have happened in Earth's distant past can't be taken as confirmed proof of how things actually played out – but they offer a neat consistency in their explanations as to why Earth is the way it is, and other worlds too.

(Fiery Collisions That Gave Birth to Earth Could Have Evaporated 40% of Our World, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

"Sorry my hand played out," Martin said, when at last he desisted. "It is quite numb."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody—told it to me because Jay Gatsby had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)