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{
"term": "tire",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "tire",
"heSheIt": "tires"
},
"pastSimple": "tired",
"pastParticiple": "tired",
"ingForm": "tiring"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to become tired and feel as if you want to sleep or rest; to make somebody feel this way",
"sensetop": "tire (somebody)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her legs were beginning to tire."
},
{
"text": "He has made a good recovery but still tires easily."
},
{
"text": "Walking even a short distance tires him."
},
{
"text": "She found herself tiring more quickly these days."
},
{
"text": "Long conversations tired her."
}
],
"topics": ["Feelings"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["easily", "quickly", "eventually"],
"verb + tire": ["begin to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to do something a lot, especially in a way that annoys people",
"examples": [
{
"text": "He went to Harvard—as he never tires of reminding us."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪə(r)/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tire__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪəz/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tires__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪəd/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tired__gb_3.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tiring__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪər/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tire__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪərz/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tires__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪərd/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tired__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈtaɪərɪŋ/",
"audio": "ti/tire/tiring__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "verb Old English tēorian ‘fail, come to an end’, also ‘become physically exhausted’, of unknown origin."
}