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tire

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Is tire a Scrabble word?

Yes, tire is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 4 points in Scrabble.

Word Games

  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of tire?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.Examples: "As Moldova understandably tired after a night of ball chasing, Everton left-back Baines scored his first international goal as his deflected free-kick totally wrong-footed Namasco."intransitive

2. (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.transitive

3. (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with).Examples: "I tire of this book."intransitive

4. (transitive) To bore.Synonyms: bend someone's ear, bore, depress, ennui, hold by the button, talk someone under the table, tire, wearytransitive

noun (English)

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.CanadaUSalt-ofalternative

2. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of tyre: The metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.USalt-ofalternative

3. (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.Examples: "the tire of war"obsolete

4. (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.Examples: "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."; "men like apes follow the fashions in tires, gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […]."obsolete

verb (English)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.Examples: "[Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head."obsoletetransitive

verb (English)

1. (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.Examples: "Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone."; "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."obsolete

2. (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.Examples: "and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life."; "Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son."; "Upon that were my thoughts tiring."obsolete

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "tire"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "tire"?

Scrabble
4 points
T1
I1
R1
E1
Words With Friends
4 points
T1
I1
R1
E1

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