tire 1
(tīr)v. tired, tir·ing, tires
v.intr.1. To lose energy or strength; grow weary: When you're sick, you tend to tire easily.
2. To grow bored or impatient: The audience tired after the first 30 minutes of the movie.
v.tr.1. To diminish the energy or strength; fatigue: The long walk tired me.
2. To exhaust the interest or patience of.
Synonyms: tire1, weary, fatigue, exhaust
These verbs mean to cause or undergo depletion of energy, strength, or interest. Tire often suggests a state resulting from exertion, excess, dullness, or ennui: "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life" (Samuel Johnson).
Weary often implies dissatisfaction, as that resulting from what is irksome or boring: found the long journey wearying; soon wearied of their constant bickering. Fatigue implies great weariness, as that caused by stress or overwork: "fatigued by an endless rotation of thought and wild alarms" (Mary Wollstonecraft).
To exhaust means to wear out completely, and it connotes total draining of physical or emotional strength: "Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners" (Oscar Wilde)."Following a similar 'tempest' he had ... actually apologized to me for his misbehavior ... Scenes such as I had just been a participant in fractured my spirit, exhausted me" (William Styron).
tire 2
(tīr)n.1. A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air.
2. A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel.
[Middle English, iron rim of a wheel, probably from tir, attire, short for atire, from attiren, to attire; see attire.]
tire 3
(tīr) Archaic tr.v. tired,
tir·ing,
tires To adorn or attire.
n.1. Attire.
2. A headband or headdress.
[Middle English tiren, short for attiren, to attire; see attire.]
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tiresome
tiring1. 'tiresome'You say that someone or something is tiresome when they make you feel annoyed, irritated, or bored.
She can be a very tiresome child at times.
I really came to ask you some rather tiresome questions.
2. 'tiring'Something which is tiring makes you feel tired.
We should have an early night after such a tiring day.
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