Tire Definition

tīr
tired, tires, tiring
verb
tired, tires, tiring
To lose energy or strength; grow weary.
When you're sick, you tend to tire easily.
American Heritage
To become in need of rest; become weary or fatigued through exertion.
Webster's New World
To diminish the strength of by exertion, etc.; fatigue; weary.
Webster's New World
To diminish the patience or interest of, as by dull talk, etc.; make weary; bore.
Webster's New World
To grow bored or impatient.
The audience tired after the first 30 minutes of the movie.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
noun
tires
An inflatable, vulcanized rubber or synthetic casing sealed to a wheel rim by a specified pressure and designed to reduce shock, improve traction and handling, etc.; tubeless tire: it has replaced the tube-type tire which contains a separate, soft, thin rubber inner tube to hold the air.
Webster's New World
A hoop of iron or rubber around the wheel of a vehicle, forming the tread.
Webster's New World
Attire.
Webster's New World
A woman's headdress.
Webster's New World
1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York Review of Books 2001, p. 66.
Men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh [...]
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Tire

Noun

Singular:
tire
Plural:
tires

Origin of Tire

  • From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tÄ“orian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust"), from Proto-Germanic *tiuzōnÄ… (“to cease"), from Proto-Indo-European *deus-, *dÄ“wǝ- (“to fail, be behind, lag"). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deýomai, “to lack"), Sanskrit [script?] (doá¹£a, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency"). [Devanagari?]

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English iron rim of a wheel probably from tir attire short for atire from attiren to attire attire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English tiren from Old English tēorian, tyrian deu-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French tirer (“to draw or pull"), akin to English tear (“to rend").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English tiren short for attiren to attire attire

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle English tire (“equipment") aphetic form of attire

    From Wiktionary

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