tire

Other forms: tired; tires; tiring

To tire is to grow weary or bored with something. As a noun, a tire is the large, rubber ring that surrounds a car's wheel. You might tire from the hard work of changing a flat tire.

When you tire, you need rest, or sometimes just a break: "When I tire of working on my homework, I like to read a book or watch TV for a while." As far as etymology goes, the verb is completely unrelated to the noun. The verb comes from an Old English word meaning "to become or make weary." The wheel-covering tire, on the other hand, was originally a shortened form of attire, "clothing or apparel," from the idea that a tire is, in a sense, clothing for a naked wheel.

Definitions of tire

1. verb

   lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
   “I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food”

   synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary

   types:

   conk out, peter out, poop out, run down, run out

   use up all one's strength and energy and stop working

   retire, withdraw

   lose interest

   back down, back off, bow out, chicken out, pull out

   remove oneself from an obligation

   type of:

   degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop

   grow worse
2. verb

   exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
   synonyms: fag, fag out, fatigue, jade, outwear, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary

   antonyms:

   refresh

   make fresh again

   types:

   beat, exhaust, tucker, tucker out, wash up

   wear out completely

   overfatigue, overtire, overweary

   tire excessively

   frazzle

   exhaust physically or emotionally

   play

   exhaust by allowing to pull on the line

   kill

   tire out completely

   type of:

   indispose

   cause to feel unwell
3. verb

   cause to be bored
   synonyms: bore
4. noun

   hoop that covers a wheel
   “automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air”

   synonyms: tyre

   types:

   auto tire, automobile tire, car tire, rubber tire

   a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel

   pneumatic tire, pneumatic tyre

   a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc

   wagon tire

   a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel

   flat, flat tire

   a deflated pneumatic tire

   radial, radial tire, radial-ply tire

   pneumatic tire that has radial-ply casing

   recap, retread

   a used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads

   snow tire

   an automobile pneumatic tire with deep tread to give traction in snow

   tubeless, tubeless tire

   pneumatic tire not needing an inner tube to be airtight

   type of:

   hoop, ring

   a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
5. verb

   deplete
   synonyms: exhaust, play out, run down, sap

   play out

   become spent or exhausted

   type of:

   consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up, wipe out

   use up (resources or materials)