tire

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), from Proto-Germanic *tiuzōnan (“to cease”), from Proto-Indo-European *deus-, *dēwǝ- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deýomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit  (doṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).[1]

Alternative forms [edit]

Verb [edit]

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired) (of)

  1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
    • 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, BBC Sport:
      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. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
  3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with)
    I tire of this book.
  4. (transitive) To bore
Synonyms [edit]
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to become sleepy
to make sleepy
to become bored
to bore
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References [edit]

  1. ^ J.P. Mallory & D.Q. Adams, Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture, s.v. "lack: deu(s)-" (London: Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1997), 343.

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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire

Alternative forms [edit]

Noun [edit]

tire (plural tires)

  1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
  2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
      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,
    • 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 [...].
  3. Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  4. The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre
Usage notes [edit]
  • Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British / Commonwealth spelling.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
rubber covering on a wheel — see tyre

Verb [edit]

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

  1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
    • Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
      [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to dress or adorn

Etymology 3 [edit]

French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

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Verb [edit]

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

  1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
    • Shakespeare
      Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
    • Ben Jonson
      Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
  2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
    • Chapman
      Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
    • Shakespeare
      Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb form [edit]

tire

  1. first-person singular present indicative of tirer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of tirer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
  5. second-person singular imperative of tirer

Anagrams [edit]

Scots [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈtəiər/

Verb [edit]

tae tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tirin, simple past tiret, past participle tiret)

  1. To tire.

Spanish [edit]

Verb [edit]

tire (infinitive tirar)

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
  4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tirar.

Turkish [edit]

Noun [edit]

tire

  1. "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.

Portuguese [edit]

Verb [edit]

tire

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
  3. first-person singular imperative of tirar
  4. third-person singular imperative of tirar
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