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English Dictionary: tiring by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tiring
adj
  1. producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing"
    Synonym(s): exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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