Tiring

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Tire \Tire\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tired}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Tiring}.] [OE. teorien to become weary, to fail, AS. teorian
     to be tired, be weary, to tire, exhaust; perhaps akin to E.
     tear to rend, the intermediate sense being, perhaps, to wear
     out; or cf. E. tarry.]
     To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail;


     to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon
     tires.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  tiring
       adj : producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was
             especially wearing" [syn: {exhausting}, {wearing}, {wearying}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  24 Moby Thesaurus words for "tiring":
     boresome, boring, draining, drudging, exhausting, fatiguesome,
     fatiguing, grueling, irksome, killing, punishing, straining,
     stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tedious, tiresome,
     toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, yawny