Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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tire

UK /ˈtaɪ̯ə(ɹ)/ · US /ˈtaɪ̯ɚ/ verb, noun

Also a form of Tyre

Forms tires tiring tired tyre

  1. verb (intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.
  2. verb (transitive) To make sleepy or weary.
  3. verb (intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with). “I tire of this book.”
  4. verb (transitive) To bore.
  5. noun US and Canada spelling of tyre: The rubber covering on a wheel.
  6. noun A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
  7. noun (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
  8. noun (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
  9. noun A covering for the head; a headdress.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To dress or adorn.
  11. verb (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  12. verb (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  13. noun A tier, row, or rank.

Synonyms

bend someone's ear bore depress ennui hold by the button talk someone under the table weary beleaguer exhaust fatigue fordo do for gas out get down jade knock up poop run someone ragged tire out wear tyre pall wear upon wear out outwear wear down fag out fag run down play out

Antonyms

refresh

Etymology

From Middle English tiren, tirien, teorien, from Old English tȳrian, tēorian (“to fail, cease, become weary, be tired, exhausted; tire, weary, exhaust”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Proto-West Germanic *teuʀōn (“to cease”), which is possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dews- (“to fail, be behind, lag”). Compare Ancient Greek δεύομαι (deúomai, “to lack”), Sanskrit दोष (dóṣa, “crime, fault, vice, deficiency”).

Probably from Middle English tir(e) (“equipment, furnshings, ornament”). See the details at tyre.

From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A tier, row, or rank. See Tier. [Obs.]
  2. noun Attire; apparel. [Archaic] "Having rich tire about you." Shak.
  3. noun A covering for the head; a headdress.
  4. verb To adorn; to attire; to dress. [Obs.]

Etymology [Aphetic form of attire; OE. tir, a tir. See Attire.]

Etymology [F. tirer to draw or pull; of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. tear to rend. See Tirade.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tire”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tire” (best matches first).