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tire
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ta???(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?ta???/, [?t?a???]
- (Southern American English, Appalachia) IPA(key): /?t???/
- (Midwestern US, Canada) IPA(key): /?t????/
- Rhymes: -a??(r)
- Homophone: tyre
Etymology 1
From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English t?rian, t?orian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teu??n (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek ??????? (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit ??? (dó?a, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).
Alternative forms
- tyre (dialectal)
Verb
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
- (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
- (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
- (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).
- I tire of this book.
- (transitive) To bore.
Synonyms
- (make sleepy or weary): See Thesaurus:tire
- (bore): See Thesaurus:cause boredom
Related terms
- tiresome
Translations
References
Etymology 2
From Middle English tire (“equipment”) aphetic form of attire.
Alternative forms
- (rubber covering on a wheel): tyre
Noun
tire (plural tires)
- (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
- 1705, John Philips, Blenheim
- the tire of war
- 1705, John Philips, Blenheim
- (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.
- , New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
- men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.vii:
- A covering for the head; a headdress.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,[2]
- And on her head she wore a tyre of gold,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 10, p. 144,[2]
- (American spelling) Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
- (American spelling, Canadian spelling) 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.
Usage notes
- Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
- (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
- [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
Related terms
- tiring-house
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).
Alternative forms
- tyre
Verb
tire (third-person singular simple present tires, present participle tiring, simple past and past participle tired)
- (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.
- ca. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, Act III, Sc. iv, ll. 94–97:
- I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.
- Ye dregs of baseness, vultures amongst men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis
- (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.
- 1616, George Chapman, Iliad
Etymology 4
Noun
tire (plural tires)
- A tier, row, or rank.
Further reading
- tire in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- tire in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- REIT, Teri, iter, iter., reit, rite, tier, trie
Asturian
Verb
tire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
Azerbaijani
Etymology
From Russian ???? (tire), ultimately from French tiret.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ti?re]
- Hyphenation: ti?re
Noun
tire (definite accusative tireni, plural tirel?r)
- dash (punctuation mark)
Declension
French
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti?/
Verb
tire
- first-person singular present indicative of tirer
- third-person singular present indicative of tirer
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tirer
- second-person singular imperative of tirer
Etymology 2
From English.
Noun
tire m (plural tires)
- (Canada, Louisiana) tire, tyre (of a car, truck, etc)
Anagrams
- trie, trié
Etymology 3
tire f (plural tires)
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Derived terms
- vol à la tire
- voleur à la tire
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French tirer (“shoot”).
Verb
tire
- To shoot (hit with a bullet or arrow)
Hausa
Etymology
Borrowed from English tray.
Noun
tìr?ê m (possessed form tìr?ên)
- tray
Portuguese
Verb
tire
- first-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of tirar
- first-person singular imperative of tirar
- third-person singular imperative of tirar
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?i?r/
Verb
tire (third-person singular present tires, present participle tirin, past tiret, past participle tiret)
- to tire
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ti?e/, [?t?i.?e]
Verb
tire
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of tirar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tirar.
Turkish
Etymology
From French tiret.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ti.?e/
Noun
tire (definite accusative tireyi, plural tireler)
- "-" Hyphen-minus symbol, used as a hyphen, minus sign, and a dash.
Declension
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worry
English
Etymology
From Middle English worien, werien, wirien, wirwen, wyry?en (“to choke, strangle”), from Old English wyr?an, from Proto-Germanic *wurgijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wer??- (“bind, squeeze”). Cognate with Dutch worgen, wurgen, German würgen. Compare Latin urgere (“to press, push”), Sanskrit ????? (v?hati, “to tear out, pluck”), Lithuanian ver?žti (“to string; squeeze”), Russian (poetic) ?????????? (otverzát?, “to open”, literally “to untie”). Related to wring.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??i/, /?w?i/
- (General New Zealand, General Australian, non-standard) IPA(key): /?w??i/
- (West Country, nonstandard) IPA(key): /?w???i/
- (accents without the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- (accents with the "Hurry-furry" merger)
- Rhymes: -?ri
Homophone: wurry
Verb
worry (third-person singular simple present worries, present participle worrying, simple past and past participle worried)
- (intransitive) To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt.
- (transitive) Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress.
- (transitive) To harass; to irritate or distress.
- (transitive) To seize or shake by the throat, especially of a dog or wolf.
- (transitive) To touch repeatedly, to fiddle with.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- So what if I wanted to touch my nose to the windshield? Who was it hurting? Why was it that he could repeatedly worry his change and bite his lower lip without the threat of punishment?
- 2002, Masha Hamilton, Staircase of a Thousand Steps, page 272:
- No stories, no arguments. He just worries his prayer beads.
- 1997, David Sedaris, "A Plague of Tics", Naked, page 15:
- (transitive, obsolete, Scotland) To strangle.
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
- We read (Law's Memor. Pref. lix.) that "one John Brugh, a notorious warlock (wizard) in the parochin of Fossoquhy, by the space of thirty-six years, was worried at a stake and burned, 1643."
- 1891, Journal of Jurisprudence and Scottish Law Magazine (1891), Execution of the Judgment of Death, page 397:
Synonyms
- (trouble mentally): fret
Derived terms
- beworry
- worried
Translations
Noun
worry (countable and uncountable, plural worries)
- A strong feeling of anxiety.
- An instance or cause of such a feeling.
- A person who causes worry.
Derived terms
- worrisome
- worryful
- worryless
Translations
Scots
Verb
worry
- (transitive) To strangle.
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