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Verb: tire  tI(u)r
  1. Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
    - wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out [Brit], fag, fatigue
     
  2. Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
    "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"
    - pall, weary, fatigue, jade
     
  3. Deplete
    - run down, exhaust, play out, sap
     
  4. Cause to be bored
    - bore
Noun: tire  tI(u)r
Usage: N. Amer (=tyre)
  1. Hoop that covers a wheel
    "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
    - tyre [Brit]

Sounds like: tyre

Derived forms: tires, tired, tiring

Type of: consume, degenerate, deplete, deteriorate, devolve, drop, eat, eat up, exhaust, hoop, indispose, ring, run through, use up, wipe out

Antonym: refresh

Encyclopedia: Tire, Izmir Tire Tire, İzmir Tire, Turkey