TIRE

tire, tyre

(noun) hoop that covers a wheel; “automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air”

tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; “We wore ourselves out on this hike”

tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade

(verb) lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; “I’m so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food”

bore, tire

(verb) cause to be bored

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

(intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

(transitive) To bore.

Synonyms

• (make sleepy or weary): See tire

• (bore): See cause boredom

Etymology 2

Noun

tire (plural tires)

(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

(American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.

(American spelling, Canadian spelling) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.

A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

Usage notes

• Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

(transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.

Etymology 3

Verb

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

(obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

Etymology 4

Noun

tire (plural tires)

A tier, row, or rank.

Anagrams

• REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie

Source: Wiktionary

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Tire, n.

Definition: A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.] In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.

Tire, n. Etym: [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.]

1. Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." Shak.

2. A covering for the head; a headdress. On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser.

3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. [Obs.] "The tire of war." Philips.

5. Etym: [Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel.]

Definition: A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

Note: The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle has a tire of India rubber.

Tire, v. t.

Definition: To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.] [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.

Tire, v. i. Etym: [F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade.]

1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.] Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak. Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson.

2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. [Obs.] Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son. Chapman. Upon that were my thoughts tiring. Shak.

Tire, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tired; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiring.] Etym: [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry.]

Definition: To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

Tire, v. t.

Definition: To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade. Shak. Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden. To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

Syn.

– To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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