tire
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Is tire a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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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