verb
definition
To become sleepy or weary.
definition
To make sleepy or weary.
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To become bored or impatient (with).
example
I tire of this book.
definition
To bore.
verb
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To dress or adorn.
verb
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To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
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To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
adjective
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In need of some rest or sleep.
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Fed up, annoyed, irritated, sick of.
example
I'm tired of this
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Overused, cliché.
example
a tired song
definition
Ineffectual; incompetent
Examples of tired in a Sentence
I know you must be tired, so I will let you rest.
The toddlers were both tired and cranky.
She was so tired that she has fallen asleep on the sofa in my room.
I think you must be tired, Princess.
She wasn't actually tired, but reading was relaxing.
You are tired--try to sleep.
I'm tired of waiting.
She was also tired of being afraid.
Perhaps it's not so pristine, like most of this tired city.
The doctor seemed tired and in a hurry.
I'm kinda tired of having my brain cut open.
I am tired now and I do want to go down stairs.
My eyes are tired from all this reading and culling, discarding the inappropriate ones.
The light green scrubs made his long features look sallow and the pale blue eyes that fixed on her seemed more tired than interested.
I was really tired, so I went back to bed.
She was worried and tired already, and his latest jab didn't buoy her spirits at all.
After half an hour, she grew tired of the internal argument.
As my professors told me the first day I started studying economics in college (and never tired of repeating), scarcity is the central underlying assumption of all economic theory.
Destiny grew tired of trying to get her attention and finally went to her room to play.
He was getting tired of all this cloak-and dagger nonsense.
An hour of sleep was the longest he'd managed in over a week, and he felt more tired than when he lay down.
You can teach me how to defend myself against monsters if you get tired of bailing me out.
And in it were some odd little pictures, which he never grew tired of looking at.
I asked him once if he was not sometimes tired at night, after working all day; and he answered, with a sincere and serious look, "Gorrappit, I never was tired in my life."
Didn't he know how tired she was?
Well guys, I hate to leave such good company, but I'm so tired that I can hardly keep my eyes open.
I was tired of being his crutch.
She was tired, frustrated, and, worst of all, scared.
I'm just tired of the labels we slap on people who think independent of the 'in' crowd.
You won.t get tired of it here or bored?
Why are you so tired?
Now I am too tired to write more.
You told me you were tired of trying to scratch out a living from this ranch.
The day kiri grows tired of him, he's going to my behavior modification training, Dusty assured him.
He was tired, he was vexed, he hardly knew what he said.
I do think I could work all day long without feeling tired if they would let me.
I guess I was tired of looking for gender neutral pronouns.
Tired, she wiped her eyes, an ache fluttering through her at the lingering scent of Dusty on her skin.
As if sensing she was tired, he didn't tease her when she reached for his hand.
It wasn't high enough for her to see exactly what she wanted, but she was tired from effort.
He had tired of playing games.
If he returned her affection, would she grow tired of him?
After sobbing herself to sleep, she was almost too tired to appreciate the fact he was alive.
I don't mean I'm tired!
I'm tired of thinking about it.
She was hungry, tired, and dirty.
She was tired of feeling that way.
I think I might've entertained her until she grew tired of me.
She got tired of your humanness and dumped you?
This consists in governing by the aid of the superiority of a centralized organization to the unorganized masses of the people, and the superiority of military power, arising from the fact that the armed force of the Government is opposed to a people who are defenseless or tired of the armed struggle.