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Overview of verb tire

The verb tire has 4 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade


2. (3) tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue


3. run down, exhaust, play out, sap, tire

(deplete; "exhaust one's savings"; "We quickly played out our strength")

4. bore, tire

(cause to be bored)

Overview of adj tired

The adj tired has 2 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (9) tired

(depleted of strength or energy; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat")


(repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'") © 2001-2013, Demand Media, all rights reserved. The database is based on Word Net a lexical database for the English language. see disclaimer
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