I'm beat, smoked (tired)?

[cuas]

Desbaratado means overworked. I consider my self Dominican from Santo Domingo and I will never tell my employer that I am desbaratado.
I work in the field using trains and buses, when I came home I call my sister and tell her "Estoy desbaratada, me duele todo el cuerpo" only when I am super tired.
Here in the Bronx I hear it all the times among Dominicans. They can say "Di una trabaja, estoy desbaratao. Or when you clean the house from top to bottom, you say "Di una limpia, estoy desbarata"
Will I say it to my employer? NO. That means he is overworking me.

 

[Rocky]

Desbaratado means overworked. I consider my self Dominican from Santo Domingo and I will never tell my employer that I am desbaratado.
I work in the field using trains and buses, when I came home I call my sister and tell her "Estoy desbaratada, me duele todo el cuerpo" only when I am super tired.
Here in the Bronx I hear it all the times among Dominicans. They can say "Di una trabaja, estoy desbaratao. Or when you clean the house from top to bottom, you say "Di una limpia, estoy desbarata"
Will I say it to my employer? NO. That means he is overworking me.

I disagree.
You might get that way from being overworked, but it doesn't mean overworked.
It has to do more with being damaged, broken to pieces, etc.
A storm could destroy a house and it would be desbaratado.
How could that mean "overworked"?

 

[Chirimoya]

I disagree.
You might get that way from being overworked, but it doesn't mean overworked.
It has to do more with being damaged, broken to pieces, etc.
A storm could destroy a house and it would be desbaratado.
How could that mean "overworked"?

Think "shattered". Slang can be hyperbolic and figurative.

 

[Rocky]

Think "shattered". Slang can be hyperbolic and figurative.

I agree that some folks may use the word to describe the condition they are in from being overworked, but that it does NOT mean, "overworked".

 

[Chirimoya]

Fair enuff.