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verb

Tire v. t. To adorn; to attire; to dress. (Obs.) "(Jezebel) painted her face, and tired her head."

Tire v. t. 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. "Tired with toil, all hopes of safety past."

To tire out, to weary or fatigue to exhaustion; to harass.

Synonyms: To jade; weary; exhaust; harass. See Jade.

Tire v. i.

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." "Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits."

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." "Upon that were my thoughts tiring."

Tire v. i. (past & past part. tired; pres. part. tiring) To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

adjective

Tired adj. Weary; fatigued; exhausted.

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Etymology of 'Tired'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tired" Quotes from Famous Books

... will you honour me by accepting my arm? Friends, come in all, will you? All those, I mean, whom my wife that is to be has invited to her last girlhood's entertainment. Irma neni, do lead the way. Elsa looks quite pale for want of food—she had her breakfast very early, I suppose, and got tired dressing for this great occasion. Andor, you shall sit next to Elsa if you like. . . . You must have lots to tell her. Your adventures among the cannibals and the lions and tigers. . . . Eh? . . . And Irma neni shall sit next to you ...

— A Bride of the Plains • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... come for action. M. d'Aubray, tired with business, was to spend a holiday at his castle called Offemont. The marquise offered to go with him. M. d'Aubray, who supposed her relations with Sainte-Croix to be quite broken off, joyfully accepted. Offemont was exactly the place for a crime of this nature. In the middle of the ...

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... me here," she returned, patting the farther corner of the bench. "I will follow you in a moment. O, I am so tired—feel how my heart ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... greasily fluent on rather well-worn lines. I smoked my pipe and made no comment. By-and-bye he tired of his monologue. ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... girls' reason is a natural one. She is new in society, very attractive, and her presence thrusts itself on them as a warning. They don't see what she wants among Ottawa coteries, born and bred, no one knows where. But the men's reason is also a very natural one. They are a little tired of continually meeting the same fair faces wherever they go. A woman is to them like a good thing that won't wear out. They do not wish to give up either altogether, but they weary at the sight of them, and so long as they can substitute them for any other—whether ...

— Honor Edgeworth • Vera

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