tire

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   hoop that covers a wheel

   automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air

2. 2
   verb

   lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

   I tired of your complaints about my food so I stopped cooking for you.

3. 3
   verb

   To become sleepy or weary.

   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.

4. 4
   verb

   To become bored or impatient (with).

   I tire of this book.

5. 5
   noun

   Accoutrements, accessories.

   the tire of war

6. 6
   noun

   Dress, clothes, attire.

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   A covering for the head; a headdress.

   And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

8. 8
   verb

   To dress or adorn.

   [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.

Etymology

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).