TIRE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tire out mean? 

• TIRE OUT (verb)
  The verb TIRE OUT has 1 sense:

1. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

  Familiarity information: TIRE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIRE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

fag; fag out; fatigue; jade; outwear; tire; tire out; wear; wear down; wear out; wear upon; weary

Context example:

We wore ourselves out on this hike

Hypernyms (to "tire out" is one way to...):

indispose (cause to feel unwell)

Cause:

fatigue; jade; pall; tire; weary (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "tire out"):

beat; exhaust; tucker; tucker out; wash up (wear out completely)

overfatigue; overtire; overweary (tire excessively)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot tire out Sue

 Context examples 

It showed that silencing astrocytes in the brain’s breathing center caused rats to breathe at a lower rate and tire out on a treadmill earlier than normal.

(Star-like cells may help the brain tune breathing rhythms, National Institutes of Health)

He was greyer, the lines in his face and forehead were deeper, and he had every appearance of having toiled and wandered through all varieties of weather; but he looked very strong, and like a man upheld by steadfastness of purpose, whom nothing could tire out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)