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One's overwhelmed by the noise and exhausted (4,2)

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I believe the answer is:

done in

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'exhausted' is the definition.
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'one's overwhelmed by the noise and' is the wordplay.
'overwhelmed by' indicates putting letters inside (inserted letters get absorbed or overwhelmed).
'the noise' becomes 'di' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'and' becomes 'n' (common abbreviation for 'and').
'one' going inside 'di' is 'donei'.
'donei'+'n'='DONE IN'

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(Other definitions for done in that I've seen before include "Spent" , "lacking strength" , "Wasted" , "physically exhausted" , "very tired" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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