Tire definition
When you're sick, you tend to tire easily.
The audience tired after the first 30 minutes of the movie.
The long walk tired me.
A rubber wheel made by Goodyear or Firestone is an example of a tire.
When you've been up for 17 hours and you start to feel sleepy, this is an example of when you tire.
If you play video games all the time and then get bored with them, this is an example of when you tire of video games.
Men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh [...]
Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
Upon that were my thoughts tiring.
Origin of tire
- 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
- Middle English tiren short for attiren to attire attire
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- 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?]
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- From Middle English tire (“equipment") aphetic form of attire
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