tire
/ˈtʌɪ̯ɚ/ · verb
Meaning
- To become sleepy or weary.
- To make sleepy or weary.
- To become bored or impatient (with).
- To bore.
- Accoutrements, accessories.
- Dress, clothes, attire.
- A covering for the head; a headdress.
- Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
- The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
- A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
- To dress or adorn.
- To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
- To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
- A tier, row, or rank.
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