Meaning

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
4. (transitive) To bore.
5. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
6. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
7. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
8. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

Example Sentences

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.

I tire of this book.

the tire of war

men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

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.

And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

Word Forms

• tires
• tiring
• tired
• tyre

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When Should You Use Tire?

Use tire when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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