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tire

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Pronunciation
/ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/(UK)
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/ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/(UK) · /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ · [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ] · /ˈtɑːɚ/ · /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/ · /ˈtaɪ(ə)ɹ/ · /ˈtʌɪ(ə)ɹ/ · [ˈtəj(ə)ɹ]

Definition of tire

14 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To become sleepy or weary.
    “As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To become sleepy or weary.
    “As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco.”
  2. (transitive)To make sleepy or weary.
  3. (intransitive)To become bored or impatient (with).
    “I tire of this book.”
  4. (transitive)To bore.
  5. (obsolete, transitive)To dress or adorn.
    “[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.”
  6. (obsolete)To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
    “Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.”
    “I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.”
    “Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.”
  7. (obsolete)To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
    “and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.”
    “Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.”
    “Upon that were my thoughts tiring.”

noun

  1. (Canada, US, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
  2. (US, alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  3. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
  4. (obsolete)Accoutrements, accessories.
    “the tire of war”
  5. (obsolete)Dress, clothes, attire.
    “Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.”
    “men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].”
  6. A covering for the head; a headdress.
    “And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,”
  7. A tier, row, or rank.
    “In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.”

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Etymology

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

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