tire Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun hoop that covers a wheel
    tyre.
    • automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air
  2. verb lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
    jade; fatigue; pall; weary.
    • 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
    wear out; wear down; jade; fag out; weary; fatigue; wear; tire out; outwear; fag; wear upon.
    • We wore ourselves out on this hike
  4. verb deplete
    exhaust; run down; play out; sap.
    • exhaust one's savings
    • We quickly played out our strength
  5. verb cause to be bored
    bore.

WordNet

Tire noun
Definitions
  1. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. Obs.
    In posture to displode their second tire Of thunder. Milton.
Tire noun
Etymology
Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.
Definitions
  1. Attire; apparel. Archaic "Having rich tire about you." Shak.
  2. A covering for the head; a headdress.
    On her head she wore a tire of gold. Spenser.
  3. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
  4. Furniture; apparatus; equipment. Obs. "The tire of war." Philips.
  5. Probably the same word, and so called as being an attire or covering for the wheel. A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. ✍ The iron tire of a wagon wheel or cart wheel binds the fellies together. The tire of a locomotive or railroad-car wheel is a heavy hoop of iron or steel shrunk tightly upon an iron central part. The wheel of a bicycle has a tire of India rubber.
Tire transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To adorn; to attire; to dress. Obs.
    [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head. 2 Kings ix. 30.
Tire intransitive verb
Etymology
F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade.
Definitions
  1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. Obs.
    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. Obs.
    Thus made she her remove, And left wrath tiring on her son. Chapman.
    Upon that were my thoughts tiring. Shak.
Tire intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E. tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear out; or cf. E. tarry.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Tired ; present participle & verbal noun Tiring
Definitions
  1. To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
Tire transitive verb
Definitions
  1. 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. Shak.
    Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past. Dryden.
    Syn. -- To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

Webster 1913