Lexic.us

Definition of Tire

1. Noun. Hoop that covers a wheel. "Automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"

2. Verb. Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody. "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

3. Verb. Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. "Sam wants to tire with Sue "; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

4. Verb. Deplete. "They tire the money "; "We quickly played out our strength"

5. Verb. Cause to be bored. "The performance is likely to tire Sue"

Definition of Tire

1. n. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

2. n. Attire; apparel.

3. v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress.

4. v. i. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

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

6. 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.

Definition of Tire

1. Noun. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire. ¹

3. Noun. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive. ¹

4. Noun. The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre ¹

5. Verb. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with) ¹

9. Verb. (transitive) To bore ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tire

1. to grow tired [v TIRED, TIRING, TIRES]

Medical Definition of Tire

1. 1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. "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. "Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son." (Chapman) "Upon that were my thoughts tiring." (Shak) Origin: F. Tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. Tear to rend. See Tirade. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tire

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