Tire Definition

tīr

tired, tires, tiring

verb

tired, tires, tiring

To lose energy or strength; grow weary.

When you're sick, you tend to tire easily.

American Heritage

To become in need of rest; become weary or fatigued through exertion.

Webster's New World

To diminish the strength of by exertion, etc.; fatigue; weary.

Webster's New World

To diminish the patience or interest of, as by dull talk, etc.; make weary; bore.

Webster's New World

To grow bored or impatient.

The audience tired after the first 30 minutes of the movie.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
displease
exasperate
annoy
distress
do in
do up
run a person ragged*
prostrate
unman
dishearten
deject
pain
harass
take the tuck out of*;
wear out

Antonyms:

noun

tires

An inflatable, vulcanized rubber or synthetic casing sealed to a wheel rim by a specified pressure and designed to reduce shock, improve traction and handling, etc.; tubeless tire: it has replaced the tube-type tire which contains a separate, soft, thin rubber inner tube to hold the air.

Webster's New World

A hoop of iron or rubber around the wheel of a vehicle, forming the tread.

Webster's New World

Attire.

Webster's New World

A woman's headdress.

Webster's New World

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 [...]

Wiktionary

Synonyms:

Synonyms:
tyre
tire and tube
casing
wheel

Other Word Forms of Tire

Noun

Singular:

tire

Plural:

tires

Origin of Tire

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?]

From Wiktionary
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
French tirer (“to draw or pull"), akin to English tear (“to rend").

From Wiktionary
Middle English tiren short for attiren to attire attire

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Middle English tire (“equipment") aphetic form of attire

From Wiktionary