Definition of Tire

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Definition of Tire

Tire

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

Attire; apparel.

A covering for the head; a headdress.

A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.

To adorn; to attire; to dress.

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.

To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.

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Tire Quotations

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
George Edward Woodberry

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.
Ho Chi Minh

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Antonin Artaud

A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
Xenophon

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
John Irving

If you are Iraqi, you know who I am... and you know that I do not tire. I am the president of Iraq and I refuse to answer these questions because this court is illegitimate.
Saddam Hussein

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
Alphonse de Lamartine

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Christopher Lasch

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Laurence Sterne

Tire Translations

tire in French is fatiguer, pneu, pneumatique
tire in Italian is faticare
tire in Spanish is cansar

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