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tire

1 [tahy^uh

,verb, tired, tir⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	to reduce or exhaust the strength of, as by exertion; make weary; fatigue: The long walk tired him.

2.	to exhaust the interest, patience, etc., of; make weary; bore: Your stories tire me.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to have the strength reduced or exhausted, as by labor or exertion; become fatigued; be sleepy.

4.	to have one's appreciation, interest, patience, etc., exhausted; become or be weary; become bored (usually fol. by of): He soon tired of playing billiards.

–noun

5.	British Dialect. fatigue.

Origin:
bef. 900; late ME (Scots) tyren (v.), OE tȳrian, var. of tēorian to weary, be wearied

Synonyms:
2. exasperate, irk.

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tire

2 [tahy^uh

,noun, verb, tired, tir⋅ing.

–noun

1.	a ring or band of rubber, either solid or hollow and inflated, or of metal, placed over the rim of a wheel to provide traction, resistance to wear, or other desirable properties.

2.	a metal band attached to the outside of the felloes and forming the tread of a wagon wheel.

–verb (used with object)

3.	to furnish with tires.

Also, British, tyre.

Origin:
1475–85; special use of tire ³

tire

3 [tahy^uh

,verb, tired, tir⋅ing, noun

–verb (used with object)

1.	Archaic. to dress (the head or hair), esp. with a headdress.

2.	Obsolete. to attire or array.

–noun

3.	Archaic. a headdress.

4.	Obsolete. attire or dress.

Origin:
1300–50; ME; aph. var. of attire

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tire¹ (tīr)

v. tired, tir·ing, tires

v. intr.

To grow weary.
To grow bored or impatient.

v. tr.

To diminish the strength or energy of; fatigue.
To exhaust the interest or patience of; bore.

[Middle English tiren, from Old English tēorian, tyrian; see deu-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

Synonyms: These verbs mean to cause or undergo depletion of strength, energy, spirit, interest, or patience. 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).
Jade refers principally to dullness that most often results from overindulgence: "Contemplation of works of art without understanding them jades the faculties and enslaves the intelligence" (John Ruskin).

tire² (tīr)

A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air.
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.]

tire³ (tīr)

tr.v. tired, tir·ing, tires
To adorn or attire.
n.

Attire.
A headband or headdress.

[Middle English tiren, short for attiren, to attire; see attire.]

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Tire

Tire\, n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.]

In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. --Milton.

Tire

Tire\, n. [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. [Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel.] 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

Tire\, v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]

[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. --2 Kings ix. 30.

Tire

Tire\, v. i. [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

Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tired; p. pr. & vb. n. Tiring.] [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.] To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

Tire

Tire\, v. t. 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.

Language Translation for : tire

Spanish: cansar(se),

German: ermüden,

Japanese: 疲れさせる

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tire (v.)

"to weary," also "to become weary," O.E. teorian (Kentish tiorian), of unknown origin, not found outside English. The pp. adj. tired is attested from c.1400; tiresome "tedious" is first recorded 1500.

tire (n.)

1485, "iron rim of a carriage wheel," probably from tire "equipment, dress, covering" (c.1300), an aphetic form of attire. The notion is of the tire as the dressing of the wheel. The original spelling was tyre, which had shifted to tire in 17c.-18c., but since early 19c. tyre has been revived in Great Britain and become standard there. Rubber ones, for bicycles (later automobiles) are from 1870s.

Main Entry: tire
Pronunciation: 'tI(&)r
Function: verb
Inflected Forms: tired; tir·ing
intransitive senses
: tobecome weary tire transitive senses
: to exhaust or greatly decrease the physical strength of :

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