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bushed adjective- very tired US, 1879
- He said, “Cecil, I’m bushed. Goodnight.” — Iceberg Silm (Robert Beck), Long White Con, p. 53, 1977
- You look bushed. What time did you get to bed? — Clerks, 1994
- showing adverse psychological effects from having to live in bad weather CANADA, 1952
Confinement and isolation, especially in the north of North America, give this widely used term a special meaning, different from “going native”. - Bushed. He knew the country, but he had been away. And then he had returned alone to this place, where for so long every year the winter buried you, snow blinded you, the wind screamed up the hill at night, and the water thundered. — Joyce Marshall, Canadian Short Stories, pp. 289–290, 1960
- lost in bushland AUSTRALIA, 1844
- — Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, p. 293, 1907
- They got bushed in Australia’s wildest country. — Weekend, p. 14, 1 June 1957
- — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 13, 1994
- lost, but not in the bush AUSTRALIA
- I couldn’t help him with direction–I was always bushed in Japan, night or day. — Les Such, A Yen for Yokohama, p. 91, 1963
- — Peter Corris, Make Me Rich, p. 155, 1985
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