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It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
Ishmael Beah

Meaning of "tiring" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TIRING

tiring  [ˈtaɪərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIRING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tiring is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TIRING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tiring in the English dictionary

The definition of tiring in the dictionary is if you describe something as tiring, you mean that it makes you tired so that you want to rest or sleep.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TIRING


admiring
ədˈmaɪərɪŋ
aspiring
əˈspaɪərɪŋ
biscuit-firing
ˈbɪskɪtˌfaɪərɪŋ
conspiring
kənˈspaɪərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
firing
ˈfaɪərɪŋ
hearing
ˈhɪərɪŋ
inquiring
ɪnˈkwaɪərɪŋ
inspiring
ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ
perspiring
pəˈspaɪərɪŋ
quick-firing
ˈkwɪkˌfaɪərɪŋ
retiring
rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ
rewiring
ˌriːˈwaɪərɪŋ
unadmiring
ˌʌnədˈmaɪərɪŋ
unaspiring
ˌʌnəˈspaɪərɪŋ
undesiring
ˌʌndɪˈzaɪərɪŋ
unenquiring
ˌʌnɪnˈkwaɪərɪŋ
uninquiring
ˌʌnɪnˈkwaɪərɪŋ
uninspiring
ˌʌnɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ
wiring
ˈwaɪərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIRING

tireless
tirelessly
tirelessness
tireling
Tiresias
tiresome
tiresomely
tiresomeness
tirewoman
tirewomen
Tirich Mir
tiring room
tiriti
tirl
tiro
tirocinium
Tirol
Tirolean
Tirolese
tironic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIRING

airing
awe-inspiring
base pairing
bring
catering
considering
despairing
during
electric wiring
fairing
hiring
manufacturing
monitoring
offering
pairing
photo-sharing
prehiring
shoe repairing
undespairing
untiring

Synonyms and antonyms of tiring in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TIRING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tiring» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tiring

Translation of «tiring» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIRING

Find out the translation of tiring to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tiring from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tiring» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

累人的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agotador
570 millions of speakers

English

tiring
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

थका
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مُنْهِك
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

утомительный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cansativo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্লান্তিকর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fatigant
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melelahkan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

ermüdend
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

疲れる
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

피로하게 하는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tiring
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

mệt mỏi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சோர்வை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

दमछाक करणारी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yorucu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

stancante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

męczący
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

виснажливий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

obositor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κουραστικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

uitputtend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tröttsam
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

trøttende
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tiring

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIRING»

The term «tiring» is quite widely used and occupies the 30.776 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TIRING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tiring

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10 QUOTES WITH «TIRING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tiring.
1
Michael Bay
I'm done with effects movies for now. When you do a movie like 'Transformers', it can feel like you're doing three movies at once - which is tiring.
2
Ishmael Beah
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
3
Craig Bierko
Television shows, especially hour-longs, are hard, tiring work. Those people are very tired and very rich. But they're working really hard, and to create the illusion of having the time of your life like that, you really got to give it up to the people who do it.
4
Cameron Bright
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
5
John Buford
During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none.
6
Hussein Chalayan
I am an idealist, which can be tiring.
7
Jackie Cooper
If it's boring, then it's tiring.
8
James Corden
I love hard work. 'One Man, Two Guvnors' was so physically tiring I ached all the time, but I took a massive amount of pride in the fact that I only ever missed two shows.
9
Catherine Deneuve
I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think, Oh my God, it must be so tiring.
10
Ajay Devgan
It gets tiring, doing the same thing everyday.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIRING»

Discover the use of tiring in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tiring and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Monstrous Dreams of Reason: Body, Self, and Other in the ...
The second of these is significant to this discussion because the presence of women on stage also introduced the possibility that they were free to meet with audience members backstage in the tiring-room. The question of audience members' ...
Laura Jean Rosenthal, Mita Choudhury, 2002
2
Material London, Ca. 1600
One is whether, with a tiring house and stage built free of the gallery scaffolding, the designers were not liberated to make a stage that did incorporate some of the innovations dreamed up in the great years since 1 576. Back in 1 567 the Red ...
Lena Cowen Orlin, 2000
3
Neue Beihefte zur Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des ...
For that purpose, I have chosen the Nestlé Company and the Tiring Galata department store. For instance if we take Nestlé, we see that this company began its advertising activities in the Ottoman press in the year 1880.42 Already in this year ...
Gisela Procházka-Eisl, Martin Strohmeier, 2008
4
Early Cambridge Theatres: College, University and Town ...
Since an additional timber tied the front post to the back post at the stage end at the upper level, I infer a side girt at each end of the upper-level platform (as in the tiring houses described below) and ten jeece between. The screens gallery ...
Alan H. Nelson, 1994
5
Many Ways of Speaking about the Self: Middle Eastern ...
On the other hand, the author goes on to praise (indirectly) the high value of advertising for business in stating: "Tiring has highly profited by its advertising. It has become very rich. And, Tiring became even richer. Tiring method of gaining ...
Ralf Elger, Yavuz Köse, 2010
6
Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance: ...
of early modern public performance, where the stage was 'outside' in the open air courtyard at the centre of the playhouse, and the backstage or tiring house was ' inside' the fabric of the building; hence the act of leaving the stage might be ...
Tim Fitzpatrick, 2011
7
Parallel Lives: Spanish and English National Drama, 1580-1680
At the Fortune the tiring house was built within the yard, but it did not form the lowest storey of a tower. ... As at the Fortune, and perhaps at the Globe and Rose, the tiring house [at the Hope) was constructed within the yard, (italics mine) Peter  ...
Louise Fothergill-Payne, Peter Fothergill-Payne, 1991
8
A Jacobean Company and its Playhouse: The Queen's Servants ...
However, the one drawing of the exterior of the playhouse from St John Street that we have – the Dyrham papers sketch, which cannot be placed before 1664 – shows a likely turret to a tiring house placed to the St John Street side at this ...
Eva Griffith, 2013
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Early English Stages: 1576-1600
17O-1, represent the essentials of the layout of the stage and auditorium in Queens' College Hall and of the relationship of these two tiring-houses to that stage. Once that is granted, and the date is 1639, it is obvious that any temptation to ...
Glynne William Gladstone Wickham, 2002
10
The Art of Falconry: Being the De Arte Venandi Cum Avibus of ...
As she grasps the tiring with her foot, the falconer should gently un- knot the leash beneath the perch ; but before releasing the end of it, he should attempt to gather the falcon's jesses into the hand upon which she is standing. If this is not ...
Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor), Casey Albert Wood, Florence Marjorie Fyfe, 1943

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIRING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tiring is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Barcelona Head Coach Luis Enrique Claims ICC Tournament Tiring
Barcelona manager Luis Enrique left out a number of key players for the Blaugrana's participation in the International Champions Cup pre-season tournament, ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
2
Martino laments tiring Argentina
Argentina coach Gerardo Martino believes the huge demands placed on his players during their domestic seasons is affecting their Copa America displays. «Goal.com, Jun 15»
3
A Most Tiring Time: Sleep and Residency
Talking candidly about sleep and residency is a difficult task. Not because the two are incongruous—quite the opposite, actually. I think I speak for pretty much ... «Medscape, Jun 15»
4
The Tiring Terrain Of Insurance Contract Exhaustion
Exhaustion is a fundamental requirement that generally is discussed in connection with excess insurance. However, exhaustion is important to primary insurers ... «Law360, Jun 15»
5
Even the Tory benches are tiring of Cameron's chorus of gloats and …
Even the Tory benches are tiring of Cameron's chorus of gloats and sneers. John Crace. Harriet Harman has called time on the prime minister's juvenile ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
6
Dil Dhadakne Do: Anil Kapoor rocks in a tiring, yet fun film
Stay away from the concession stand and forget your phones at home as you'll need both your hands free for the scroll pad and pen to keep track of the barrage ... «The Hindu, Jun 15»
7
Despite Tiring Circumstances, Douglass Baseball, Softball Find …
Toward the end of the 2015 spring season, Douglass High School's Tina Queen had a problem many athletic directors would be envious of: she had two teams ... «Press Box, May 15»
8
Young Lindgren gives Yanks fresh arm in tiring bullpen
It didn't take Jacob Lindgren long to figure out where he was a year ago Sunday. Standing in front of his new locker in the Yankees clubhouse, the left-hander ... «New York Post, May 15»
9
Smaller crowds against Yankees at Trop: Are fans tiring of stadium …
The Rays' Allan Dykstra reacts to a called strike three in the bottom of the eighth inning Sunday in a game against the Yankees at Tropicana Field in St. «Tampabay.com, Apr 15»
10
Jeff Gordon Addresses NASCAR Tire Tampering Allegations
url":"/GMA/video/jeff-gordon-addresses-nascar-tiring-tampering-allegations-30002579","section":"GMA","mediaType":"Default"}. Yahoo!-ABC News Network. «ABC News, Mar 15»

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