Tire

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To grow weary.
  • verb-intransitive. To grow bored or impatient.
  • v. To diminish the strength or energy of; fatigue.
  • v. To exhaust the interest or patience of; bore.
  • n. A covering for a wheel, usually made of rubber reinforced with cords of nylon, fiberglass, or other material and filled with compressed air.
  • n. A hoop of metal or rubber fitted around a wheel.
  • v. To adorn or attire.
  • n. Attire.
  • n. A headband or headdress.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To become sleepy or weary.
  • v. To make sleepy or weary.
  • v. To become bored or impatient (with)
  • v. To bore
  • n. Accoutrements, accessories.
  • n. Dress, clothes, attire.
  • n. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  • n. The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre
  • v. To dress or adorn.
  • v. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • v. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A tier, row, or rank. See tier.
  • n. Attire; apparel.
  • n. A covering for the head; a headdress.
  • n. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
  • n. Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
  • n. A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre.
  • v. To adorn; to attire; to dress.
  • verb-intransitive. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • verb-intransitive. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • verb-intransitive. To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted.
  • v. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To become weary, fatigued, or jaded; have the strength or the patience reduced or exhausted.
  • To make weary, weaken, or exhaust by exertion; fatigue; weary: used with reference to physical effect from either physical or mental strain.
  • To exhaust the attention or the patience of, as with dullness or tediousness; satiate, sicken, or cause repugnance in, as by excessive supply or continuance; glut.
  • Synonyms Tire, Fatigue, Weary, Jade. These words are primarily physical, and are in the order of strength. One may become tired simply by standing still, or fatigued by a little over-exertion. Fatigue suggests something of exhanstion or inability to continue exertion : as, fatigued with running. Weary implies protracted exertion or strain gradually wearing out one's strength. Jade implies the repetition of the same sort of exertion: as, a horse will become jaded sooner by driving on a dead level than if he occasionally has a hill to climb. All these words have a figurative application to the mind corresponding to their physical meaning. See fatigue, n., and wearisome.
  • n. The feeling of being tired; a sensation of physical or mental fatigue.
  • To draw; pull; drag.
  • To pull apart or to pieces; rend and devour; prey upon.
  • To engage in pulling or tearing or rending; raven; prey: used especially in falconry of hawks pouncing upon their prey, and in analogous figurative applications.
  • Hence To be earnestly engaged; dwell; dote; gloat.
  • n. A train or series.
  • n. A row; rank; course; tier; especially, a row of guns; a battery.
  • n. A stroke; hit.
  • To adorn; attire; dress. See attire.
  • To prepare or equip for; make ready; setup.
  • n. Attire; dress.
  • n. Furniture; apparatus; machinery.
  • n. A head-dress. See tiara.
  • n. A bitter drink or liquor.
  • n. A continuous band of metal or other substance placed around a wheel to form the tread.
  • To put a tire upon; furnish with tires: as, to tire a wheel or a wagon. Also tyre.
  • n. See tier, 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. hoop that covers a wheel
  • v. cause to be bored
  • v. deplete
  • v. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
  • v. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
  • Verb Form
    tired    tirely    tires    tiring   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    use up    deplete    wipe out    eat    exhaust    run through    eat up    consume   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    tier   
    Form
    tired    tiring   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    attire    apparel    headdress    pinafore    tier    furniture    apparatus    equipment    adorn    dress   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dyer    Meier    Meyer    Trier    acquire    attire    briar    brier    buyer    byer   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wheel    brake    engine    axle    gear    truck    headlight    tank    shoe    rubber