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TIRING (6)

tiring

tiring - If you describe something as tiring, you mean that it makes you tired so that you want to rest or sleep.

in a sentence

This lack of venom in my new job made committee work less tiring.

She found herself tiring more quickly these days.

As we neared the summit, we were tiring fast.

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etymology

"to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian) "to fail, cease; become weary; make weary, exhaust," of uncertain origin; according to Watkins possibly from Proto-Germanic *teuzon, from a suffixed form of PIE root *deu- (1) "to lack, be wanting." Related: Tired; tiring.

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