tire

Meanings

Verb

• To become sleepy or weary.
• To make sleepy or weary.
• To become bored or impatient (with).
• To bore.
• 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.

Noun

• 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.
• A tier, row, or rank.

Origin

• From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian, of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn, which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewH-. Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι, Sanskrit दोष.
• From Middle English tire aphetic form of attire.
• From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer, akin to English tear.