TIRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tiring mean? 

• TIRING (adjective)
  The adjective TIRING has 1 sense:

1. producing exhaustion

  Familiarity information: TIRING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIRING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Producing exhaustion

Synonyms:

exhausting; tiring; wearing; wearying

Context example:

the visit was especially wearing

Similar:

effortful (requiring great physical effort)

 Context examples 

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Check Yes or No if the adjective applies to your pain; tiring.

(BPI - Tiring, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers from Clarkson University in New York observed a group of older adults (average age 75) while they performed physically and mentally tiring tasks.

(Mental, Not Physical, Fatigue Affects Seniors' Walking Ability, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

They could only run half the distance that normal rats could run on a treadmill before tiring out.

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

She says that we are very good to her; that her dear old careful boy is tiring himself out, she knows; that my aunt has no sleep, yet is always wakeful, active, and kind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was very tiring and slow work, yet I did visibly gain ground; and as we drew near the Cape of the Woods, though I saw I must infallibly miss that point, I had still made some hundred yards of easting.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)