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tiring

verbnounadjectiveattested in dialogue

  • //ˈtaɪəɹɪŋ//

The action of tiring.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of tirepresent participle and gerund of tire

noun

  1. 1

    The action of tiring.

  2. 2

    Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

adjective

  1. 1

    That tires or tire.

    Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring.

Forms

plural
tirings
comparative
more tiring
superlative
most tiring
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).