bushed

IPA: bˈʊʃt

adjective

  • (informal) Very tired; exhausted.
  • (Canada) Mentally unwell due to isolation, especially due to working in a remote mine or camp; experiencing cabin fever.
  • Incorporating a bush, a mechanical part.
  • (Australia) Lost in the bush.
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Examples of "bushed" in Sentences

  • We were "bushed" -- had no idea which way to turn.
  • Bob, and not to have done it after all -- only to die "bushed"!
  • And the sinking scattered feeling of the "bushed" clutched at her again.
  • The safe ways were "bushed" by a benevolent Government, and night and day the gay tinkle of the sleigh-bells sounded on it.
  • He went hunting cattle, and got himself "bushed," or marooned -- that is, lost -- and had a narrow escape from dying in the woods.
  • But they soon realised that they were "bushed" -- a term familiar enough to those who are acquainted with the story of Australian inland exploration.
  • But the only result of their labours was that they nearly got "bushed" themselves, and at last the fall of night made the absurdity of further search clear to them.
  • The hum was like the far singing of a child-choir, and the dreamings it started then were altogether too big for the memory mechanism of a little boy's head; but the vastness and wonder of those dreamings left a kind of bushed beauty far back in his mind.
  • There was a time when I would have projected onto Rose motives of institutional fear that made him pretend like he was auditioning for Fox News, but I'm wondering if he was just plain too "bushed" to perform -- even when handed the hottest interviewee of the day.

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