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Meanings of tire out in English

Portuguese
cansar-se
Catalan
fatigar-se
Spanish
agotar

Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.

cansar-se
Usage of tire out in English
1
He must tire out the Frenchman in the end, he thought.
Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks / Book Number Fifteen...
2
Most of these remakes tire out at the box office before they arrive.
Wired
3
For you won't tire out my patience, or break my heart.
The Spinners
4
The wrappings and trappings often tire out the hapless viewer before the main event.
The Irish Times
5
I'd tire out all the judges and juries in London.
Phineas Redux
6
Don't be tempted by plants in full flower as these will soon tire out.
The Irish Times
7
You can keep doing this until your thumbs tire out.
Wired
8
We can tire out all other forbearance, but not His.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Rut...
9
And if I don't tire out I'll call on Helen.
The Day of the Beast
10
A rugby team who put a guard up for 80 minutes tire out quite quickly.
The Irish Times
11
But the cruelty of the oppressor could not tire out the fortitude of the victims.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
12
As to your wind, you would tire out the stoutest swordsman in the Percys' train.
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur and Glendower
13
There is little doubt of the ability of these couriers to tire out any horse.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
14
She has done enough to tire out an army.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
15
I thought maybe they'd punctured my tire out there.
Tom Slade, Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer
16
Maybe for a little while, but we'd just tire out even faster in the long run.
The darkness before the dawn
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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