Dire vs. Tire

Direadjective

Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.

Direadjective

Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.

Direadjective

Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal

Direadjective

(informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.

Direadjective

Ill-boding; portentous; as, dire omens.

Direadjective

Evil in great degree; dreadful; dismal; horrible; terrible; lamentable.

Direadjective

fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless;

Direadjective

causing fear or dread or terror;

Direadjective

extremely serious or urgent

Direadjective

(of a warning or threat) presaging disaster

Direadjective

of a very poor quality

Tireverb

(intransitive) To become sleepy or weary.

Tireverb

(transitive) To make sleepy or weary.

Tireverb

(intransitive) To become bored or impatient (with)

Tireverb

(transitive) To bore

Tireverb

To dress or adorn.

Tireverb

(obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

Tireverb

(obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

Tirenoun

(obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.

Tirenoun

(obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.

Tirenoun

A covering for the head; a headdress.

Tirenoun

Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.

Tirenoun

(North America) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.

Tirenoun

A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.

Tirenoun

A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.

Tirenoun

Attire; apparel.

Tirenoun

A covering for the head; a headdress.

Tirenoun

A child's apron, covering the breast and having no sleeves; a pinafore; a tier.

Tirenoun

Furniture; apparatus; equipment.

Tirenoun

A ring, hoop or band, as of rubber or metal, on the circumference of the wheel of a vehicle, to impart strength and receive the wear. In Britain, spelled tyre.

Tireverb

To adorn; to attire; to dress.

Tireverb

To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

Tireverb

To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

Tireverb

To become weary; to be fatigued; to have the strength fail; to have the patience exhausted; as, a feeble person soon tires.

Tireverb

To exhaust the strength of, as by toil or labor; to exhaust the patience of; to wear out (one's interest, attention, or the like); to weary; to fatigue; to jade.

Tirenoun

hoop that covers a wheel;

Tireverb

get tired of something or somebody

Tireverb

exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;

Tireverb

deplete;

Tireverb

cause to be bored

Tireverb

feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep

Tireverb

lose interest in; become bored with

Tireverb

exhaust the patience or interest of; bore

Tirenoun

US spelling of tyre

Tire

A tire (American English) or tyre (British English) is a ring-shaped component that surrounds a wheel's rim to transfer a vehicle's load from the axle through the wheel to the ground and to provide traction on the surface over which the wheel travels. Most tires, such as those for automobiles and bicycles, are pneumatically inflated structures, which also provide a flexible cushion that absorbs shock as the tire rolls over rough features on the surface.