tire

tire is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 4 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 4 · 16 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
2. noun. Attire; apparel.
3. noun. A covering for the head; a headdress.
4. noun. A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.
5. noun. Furniture; apparatus; equipment.
6. noun. A hoop or band, as of metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear.
7. transitive verb. To adorn; to attire; to dress.
8. intransitive verb. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
9. intransitive verb. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
10. intransitive verb. To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.
11. transitive verb. To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.
12. noun. hoop that covers a wheel

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

    Synonyms: tyre

13. verb. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

    "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

    Synonyms: fag, fatigue, jade, outwear, wear, weary

14. verb. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

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

    Synonyms: fatigue, jade, pall, weary

15. verb. cause to be bored

    Synonyms: bore

16. verb. deplete

    "exhaust one's savings"

    "We quickly played out our strength"

    Synonyms: exhaust, sap

Synonyms

tyre, fag, fatigue, jade, outwear, wear, weary, pall, bore, exhaust, sap

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tire:

iter, reit, rite, teri, tier

Common word forms

tired, tirer, tires, tiring, tireless, tirement

Words from these letters

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