• (British) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/
• (GA) IPA: /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/, [ˈtʰaɪ̯ɚ]
  • (Southern US, Appalachia) IPA: /ˈtɑːɚ/
  • (Midwestern US, Canada) IPA: /ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/

tire (tires, present participle tiring; past and past participle tired)

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).

   I tire of this book.

4. (transitive) To bore.

• (make sleepy or weary) See Thesaurus:tire
• (bore) See Thesaurus:cause boredom

• tiresome

• French: fatiguer
• German: ermüden
• Portuguese: cansar, fatigar
• Russian: устава́ть
• Spanish: cansar, cansarse

• French: fatiguer
• German: ermüden
• Italian: affaticare
• Portuguese: cansar, fatigar
• Russian: утомля́ть
• Spanish: cansar, fatigar

• Italian: stancarsi
• Russian: надоеда́ть
• Spanish: cansarse, aburrirse, hartarse

• Italian: stancare
• Russian: надоеда́ть

tire (plural tires)

1. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

   • the tire of war

2. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:

     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.

   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970 ↗:

     , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:

     men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].

3. A covering for the head; a headdress.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,

     And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,

4. (American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
5. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
6. A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

tire (tires, present participle tiring; past and past participle tired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
   • , 2 Kings ix. 30

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

• tiring-house

• Portuguese: adornar, enfeitar
• Russian: украша́ть

tire (tires, present participle tiring; past and past participle tired)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
   • 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

     Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Honest Man's Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 2, scene 5:

     Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
   • 1616, George Chapman, Iliad

     Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.

   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

     Upon that were my thoughts tiring.

tire (plural tires)

1. A tier, row, or rank.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 6”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.