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Tire

//ˈtaɪ̯ɚ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel. Canada, US, alt-of, alternative
  2. 2
    A tier, row, or rank.

    "In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder."

  3. 3
    hoop that covers a wheel wordnet
  4. 4
    Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive. US, alt-of, alternative
  5. 5
    A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
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  1. 6
    Accoutrements, accessories. obsolete

    "the tire of war"

  2. 7
    Dress, clothes, attire. obsolete

    "Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold."

  3. 8
    A covering for the head; a headdress.

    "And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,"

Verb
  1. 1
    To become sleepy or weary. intransitive

    "As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco."

  2. 2
    To dress or adorn. obsolete, transitive

    "[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head."

  3. 3
    To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. obsolete

    "Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone."

  4. 4
    exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress wordnet
  5. 5
    To make sleepy or weary. transitive
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  1. 6
    To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything. obsolete

    "and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life."

  2. 7
    lose interest or become bored with something or somebody wordnet
  3. 8
    To become bored or impatient (with). intransitive

    "I tire of this book."

  4. 9
    cause to be bored wordnet
  5. 10
    To bore. transitive
  6. 11
    deplete wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

Etymology 2

Probably from Middle English tir(e) (“equipment, furnshings, ornament”). See the details at tyre.

Etymology 3

Probably from Middle English tir(e) (“equipment, furnshings, ornament”). See the details at tyre.

Etymology 4

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

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