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[syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
tiring
adj 1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit
was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring,
wearing, wearying]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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