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TIRE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hoop that covers a wheel

Example:

automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air

Synonyms:

tire; tyre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("tire" is a kind of...):

hoop; ring (a rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tire"):

auto tire; automobile tire; car tire; rubber tire (a tire consisting of a rubber ring around the rim of an automobile wheel)

pneumatic tire; pneumatic tyre (a tire made of reinforced rubber and filled with compressed air; used on motor vehicles and bicycles etc)

wagon tire (a metal hoop forming the tread of a wheel)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "tire" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tire"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Antonym:

refresh (make fresh again)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

Example:

I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food

Synonyms:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "tire" is one way to...):

degenerate; deteriorate; devolve; drop (grow worse)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tire"):

conk out; peter out; poop out; run down; run out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working)

retire; withdraw (lose interest)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cause to be bored

Synonyms:

bore; tire

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The performance is likely to tire Sue

Sense 4

Meaning:

Deplete

Example:

We quickly played out our strength

Synonyms:

exhaust; play out; run down; sap; tire

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "tire" is one way to...):

consume; deplete; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out (use up (resources or materials))

Verb group:

play out (become spent or exhausted)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

Functional Assessment of Multiple Sclerosis (FAMS) Thinking and Fatigue: I feel tired.

(FAMS - I Feel Tired, NCI Thesaurus)

You may often be tired and in pain.

(Coping with Chronic Illness, NIH)

A condition that lasts for more than 6 months in which a person feels tired most of the time.

(CFS, NCI Dictionary)

This fatigue is not the kind of tired feeling that goes away after you rest.

(Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Everyone feels tired now and then.

(Fatigue, NIH: National Institute on Aging)

Patient Health Questionnaire - 9 (PHQ-9) Feeling tired or having little energy.

(PHQ-9 - Feeling Tired or Having Little Energy, NCI Thesaurus)

I was dead tired, as you may fancy; and when I got to sleep, which was not till after a great deal of tossing, I slept like a log of wood.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Patient Health Questionnaire - 15 (PHQ-15) Feeling tired or having low energy.

(PHQ-15 - Feeling Tired or Having Low Energy, NCI Thesaurus)

However, you may feel tired for a few months afterward.

(Infectious Mononucleosis, NIH)

A question about whether an individual feels or felt tired.

(Feel Tired, NCI Thesaurus)