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Tiring   /tˈaɪrɪŋ/   Listen
Tiring

adjective
1.
Producing exhaustion.  Synonyms: exhausting, wearing, wearying.  "The visit was especially wearing"



Tire

verb
(past & past part. tired; pres. part. tiring)
1.
Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.  Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary.
2.
Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.  Synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary.
3.
Deplete.  Synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, sap.  "We quickly played out our strength"
4.
Cause to be bored.  Synonym: bore.



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"Tiring" Quotes from Famous Books



... just like the noise of frogs, or as if one walked with great boots over a moor; always the same tone, so uniform and so tiring that little Tuk fell into a good sound sleep, which, by the bye, could not ...
— Andersen's Fairy Tales • Hans Christian Andersen

... two I had got into my bag, these were all gone, and in three hours' search I could not find one of them, though I was sure they could not pass my net, and must be within the compass of a small room, my toils enclosing no more. After tiring myself with looking for them, I marched home with those eight I ...
— Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) • Robert Paltock

... fly. Irma is such a tempestuous devil. If Leah only had her years and looks and dash, she would twist any man in the world around her finger. But I can never teach this Hungarian madcap, Leah's velvet softness and never-tiring patience." ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... had for so long played with life and death in Lost Valley, tiring of the play, drew in the strings of the puppets and set the ...
— Tharon of Lost Valley • Vingie E. Roe

... late. Alan dozed off, despite his uneasiness, for he had had a tiring day. Suddenly he awoke and sat bolt upright. There was a commotion in the street. The innkeeper was peeping out through a hole in the solid shutters. "It is the clerk again," he said. ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey


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