To exhaust the strength or endurance of (a person, his limbs, etc.); to fatigue or tire with toil, sickness, watching, sustained mental effort, etc.

To wear down or exhaust the strength of by exertion; to fatigue, weary (by either mental or physical exercise). Also absol.

transitive. To torment, distress, or harass (a person or animal); to afflict, trouble; to weary, tire. Chiefly in passive in later use. Now rare.

transitive. To weary, tire out.

To weary, tire, fatigue. (Cf. tar, v.2 2.)

To weary, fatigue. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To exhaust, weary; to cause to be weary or tired out; to dull or weaken (passion). Usually in passive.

transitive. To crush the strength of, wear out, exhaust; to weary, impair, in health or strength.

transitive. To wear down by exertion; to cause to become fatigued; to tire. Obsolete.

transitive. To overcome with weariness; to overtire. Also reflexive and †intransitive. Chiefly in passive (frequently with by, with). Now rare.

To sap the strength or energy of (a person, his faculties, etc.) by toil, age, etc.; to fatigue, weary; †to exhaust (a soil).

to wear out, forth, of something which holds good for a limited time: To determine, expire. Obsolete.

= fatigue, v. 1.

transitive. To subject (someone or something) to stress, strain, or exertion; spec. to tire, fatigue, or overwork (a person's body or mind).

transitive. To tire out; to wear out the strength of; to exhaust. Frequently reflexive.

transitive. = waste, v. in various senses; to lay waste; to use up, exhaust; to render emaciated or feeble; to spend wastefully.

With complement. to tire out, tire to death, to tire to utter exhaustion. colloquial. to tire down, to exhaust (a hunted animal) by persistent…

transitive. To wear out or exhaust (a person, etc.). Usually in passive (frequently with by, with). Also (occasionally) intransitive: to wear…

Of emotion, action, etc.: To deprive (a person) of energy, strength, or resources; to exhaust or wear out. Obsolete.

transitive. To exhaust the strength or endurance of (a person). Chiefly in past participle. Now rare.

transitive. To tire or fatigue utterly; to exhaust the endurance of.

transitive. To exhaust the strength or endurance of (a person, his or her spirit, etc.). Chiefly in passive. Now archaic.

transitive. To tire out or exhaust (someone or something) with toil.

To be tedious to; to tire, weary.

transitive. To weary, tire out.

transitive. To weary.

transitive. To wear out, tire out, or exhaust with fatigue, care, trouble, etc. Obsolete or dialect.

transitive. To impose too hard or heavy a task on; to make excessive demands on.

figurative. To burden; to make serious demands upon; to put a strain on.

transitive. To cause (a person) to become tired; to fatigue, wear out. Obsolete (in later use English regional).

transitive. To fatigue (with walking, running, or exertion); to wear out.

transitive. To wear or tire out; to exhaust; to harass. Occasionally (and in earliest use) with out. Scottish and English regional (northern and ea…

transitive. To make excessive demands on; to overburden. Also reflexive.

transitive. ‘To tire, weary; to harass with toil; to exhaust with labour’ (Johnson).

To overcome or make ill with fatigue; to exhaust, tire out. (Esp. in passive)

With complement. to tire out, tire to death, to tire to utter exhaustion. colloquial. to tire down, to exhaust (a hunted animal) by persistent…

transitive. To fatigue too much; to overtire. Frequently reflexive.

transitive. To cause (a person, animal, or part of the body) to become tired; to fatigue, wear out. Also reflexive: to tire oneself (out).

transitive. To beat, defeat, overcome; to exhaust. Frequently in passive. Now chiefly U.S. regional.

transitive. slang. To disable, wear out, tire out; to bring down, defeat; to handle (a person) roughly; to beat up.

transitive. colloquial. To tire out or exhaust (a person, animal, etc.); to make weary or debilitated, esp. through overexertion.

transitive. To make a jade of (a horse); to exhaust or wear out by driving or working hard; to fatigue, weary, tire.

transitive (chiefly reflexive and passive). To overtax the strength of; to fatigue, exhaust, wear out; to overwhelm. Frequently with with.

transitive. To fray, wear out, tear to rags or ribbons. literal and figurative. Also intransitive.

U.S. To afflict with physical fatigue or distress.

slang. To tire out, exhaust (a person); to nonplus, bring to a standstill; to put hors de combat; to outwit, cheat, swindle; also, to bring about the…

with adverb, as away, out, down, †up. Also with adverbial phrase, as to wear to death.

transitive. to take it (also a lot, too much,etc.) out of (a person): to exhaust, fatigue (a person).

transitive. To exhaust or disable; to ‘punish’. (Cf. gruel, n. 4.)

to stump up. transitive. To wear out, exhaust (a horse, etc.) by excessive strain.

To drain (a person, kingdom, etc.) of strength or resources, or (a soil) of nutritive ingredients; hence, to weary out, enfeeble extremely.

To complete the destruction of; to dispatch, kill. Also in weaker sense: To complete the discomfiture or defeat of; to reduce to complete…

transitive. U.S. To finish off, to exhaust; to cause or allow to peter out; to fritter, squander. With out, away.

transitive. To kill; to castrate; usually in weakened sense, to exhaust, to wear out. So as an imprecation. Frequently as past participle or partic…

figurative. colloquial. To be a ‘grind’ (see grind, n.1 2) to, to fag.

transitive. To fatigue or tire with hard work; reflexive = 6. dialect.

transitive. To stun (a horse, etc.) by a shot in the ‘crest’ or ridge of the neck. Also, to stun (a person); to kill; to exhaust physically; to crea…

transitive. To tire, exhaust; (also) to injure.

transitive. To wear out, debilitate; to ravage, afflict. Also figurative. Chiefly in passive.