Synonyms for tiring

Grammar : Adj

Spell : tahyuhr

Phonetic Transcription : taɪər

Définition of tiring

Origin : "to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian), of unknown origin, not found outside English. Related: Tired; tiring.

adj exhausting

Example sentences :

The perpetual bizarre beauty of the scene was tiring to the youth.
Extract from : « The Cruise of the Dry Dock » by T. S. Stribling

Kirsty was in no danger of tiring of the even flow of her life.
Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald

That's what is good, after tiring one's self out for twenty years!
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

His had been a tiring day and the strain upon his own nerves not slight.
Extract from : « Fair Harbor » by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

That 'tiring' business is some more of that doctor's foolishness.
Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Of Esther he could not think, save in a tiring, bewildered way.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

A tiring woman will wait upon you to robe you for your bridal.
Extract from : « The Midnight Queen » by May Agnes Fleming

The thing buzzed and gyrated about him, tiring his thought with its innumerable surfaces.
Extract from : « Erik Dorn » by Ben Hecht

It had been a long job—and a tiring one—but it was almost over.
Extract from : « The K-Factor » by Harry Harrison (AKA Henry Maxwell Dempsey)

He saw that she was tiring, but he did not offer any help, for he knew that she was a sportsman.
Extract from : « The Highgrader » by William MacLeod Raine

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