knackered

puhki, sippi, uupunut, sipannut, sipissä puhekieltä tired or exhausted.

I cant go out tonight — I'm knackered.''

I've got this job in a warehouse just now and it finishes quite early but I'm dead knackered at the end of the day so I don't know about going out and like studying every night.

Then, it all just gets worse and worse, you don't sleep so much, so you don't recover as well from the day's racing, so you go into your reserves, you get more knackered, so you sleep less... It's simply a vicious circle.

So my joy at hearing his voice quickly turns to a paroxysm of anxiety as he manages by exhausted gesture and sound to let us know how knackered he feels, how desperate to get horizontal, almost from the first moment he lands in the chair.

We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do.