tire1 verbtire2 noun
tiretire1 /taɪə $ taɪr/ ●○○ verb 
WORD ORIGINtire1
Origin:
Old English teorian, tyrianVERB TABLE
tire
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | tire |
| he, she, it | tires | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | tired |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have tired |
| he, she, it | has tired | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had tired |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will tire |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have tired |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am tiring |
| he, she, it | is tiring | |
| you, we, they | are tiring | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was tiring |
| you, we, they | were tiring | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been tiring |
| he, she, it | has been tiring | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been tiring |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be tiring |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been tiring |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I felt as if I could run all day without tiring.
- I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.
- That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
Longman Language Activatorto make someone feel tired
: tire/wear somebody out · Their constant quarrelling is wearing us out.tire/wear out somebody · The thin air at high altitudes usually tires out people who are not used to the mountains.
to make someone feel very tired: · The effort of swimming against the current exhausted him.it exhausts somebody to do something: · It exhausted him to talk for too long, but he loved hearing all the theater gossip.
to make someone feel tired, especially someone who gets tired easily because they are old or ill: · I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.
informal to make you feel as if you have no energy left: · Dale's a construction worker. You know, that sort of work really takes it out of you.· It wasn't the cooking so much as all the cleaning up that did me in.
spoken use this to say that doing a very hard job or activity made you feel extremely tired: · It nearly killed me carrying that fridge up the stairs!
to become tired · If you get tired, just stop for a while.· We talked until we both got tired and decided to go to bed.· Since her illness, she finds that she gets tired really easily.
to start to get tired, especially if you are doing something that needs a lot of energy: · Jenny taught for four hours straight without flagging.· By the fifth game, I could see that my opponent was beginning to flag.
to become tired by doing things that take a lot of effort: · The baby's stopped crying. He must have tired himself out.· You're going to wear yourself out if you keep working so hard.· My poor mother had exhausted herself trying to get ready for company.
to become tired, ill, and unable to continue, as a result of working too hard for too long, especially because you want very much to be successful: · If you don't stop working nights and weekends, you'll burn yourself out.· Most of these high-flying young executives burn out before they're 30.
to become so tired that you do not have enough energy to finish what you are doing, especially when you have been working hard for a long time: · The home team seemed to run out of steam well before the game was over.· Gail started the project with a lot of energy and enthusiasm, but at some point she just ran out of steam.
to become tired because of things that you do: · Get plenty of rest and try not to tire yourself unnecessarily.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
He was desperately ill with a fever. You look tired. You should go to bed. The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy. Strange though it may seem, I like housework.
(=boring because it has been used so often)· The story is based on a series of tired clichés.
He was desperately ill with a fever. (also weary literary)· He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
· His eyes looked sleepy.· Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
You look tired. You should go to bed. The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy. Strange though it may seem, I like housework.PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- He never tires of talking about the good old days.
- And it was true, as Christians never tired of pointing out, that a painful spiritual confusion reigned.
- And when speech gave way to the rhythmic breathing and small cries or even angry groans that I never tired of overhearing?
- As Otis never tired of saying, this was the promised land.
- I look at both my sewing and knitting as wonderful gifts that I will never tire of.
- I never tire of watching this strange beast that lurches like a turkey and sways its neck like a swan.
- She felt she would never tire of the way Ludo demonstrated each change in his mood.
- Still, never tired of handing them out.
- Yet certain films he would watch over and over again and never tire of them.
- Gad, I was sick and tired of life.
- I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.
- I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.
- I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.
- No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.
- People were sick of the war.
- We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.
- When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.
WORD FAMILYadjectivetiredtirelesstiresometiringnountirednessverbtireadverbtirelessly
[intransitive, transitive] to start to feel tired, or make someone feel tired: As we neared the summit, we were tiring fast.RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say get tired rather than tire:· The climbers were starting to get tired.tire of somebody/something phrasal verb1to become bored with someone or something: Sooner or later he’ll tire of politics.2never tire of doing something to enjoy doing something again and again, especially in a way that annoys other people: He never tires of talking about the good old days.tire somebody ↔ out phrasal verb to make someone very tired SYN exhaust: All that walking tired me out.tire1 verbtire2 noun
tiretire2 noun [countable] EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Commission officials said tire burning is not new to Texas.
- Now the tire companies have fought back.
- On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts.
- That can make the tires slippery.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES He was desperately ill with a fever. You look tired. You should go to bed. The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy. Strange though it may seem, I like housework.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
(=boring because it has been used so often)· The story is based on a series of tired clichés.
He was desperately ill with a fever. (also weary literary)· He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
· His eyes looked sleepy.· Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
You look tired. You should go to bed. The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy. Strange though it may seem, I like housework.· He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire, police said.· If you have a flat tire, stuff like that happens.· The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.· She explains to Jose that they have a flat tire and muse go back down the road to the big house.· Suppose he had a flat tire?· Tight shoes A motorcycle with two flat tires.· In the above case, it would be contextually inappropriate to be only reporting a flat tire at a gas station.
NOUN· In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.
VERB· Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.
· He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire, police said.· When we reached the car, I held a flashlight while Lydell White Plume changed the tire.· The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.
· That can make the tires slippery.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Gad, I was sick and tired of life.
- I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.
- I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.
- I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.
- No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.
- People were sick of the war.
- We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.
- When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.
the American spelling of tyre