tiring

Verb (1)

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (intransitive) 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.2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England”, in BBC Sport
2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
   • I tire of this book.
4. (transitive) To bore.

   Synonyms:

   bend someone's ear, bore, depress, ennui, hold by the button, talk someone under the table, weary

Verb (2)

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dress or adorn.
   • [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Kings 9:30

Verb (3)

tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC

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