Meaning & use
frazzled
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Exhausted and mentally worn out, especially from stress or overwork.
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By the end of finals week, every student in the library looked frazzled.
The frazzled mother finally sat down after getting all three kids to bed.
A note on using this word
Informal in tone, and often used self-deprecatingly to describe one's own stressed-out state.
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