1. Producing exhaustion
   "The tiring journey across the desert took its toll on the travellers";
   - exhausting, wearing, wearying

1. Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
   "We tired ourselves out on this hike";
   - wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out [Brit, informal], fag [informal], fatigue, knacker [Brit, informal]
    
2. Deplete, exhaust or weaken
   "The long hike tired her muscles";
   - run down, exhaust, play out, sap
    
3. Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
   "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food";
   - pall, weary, fatigue, jade
    
4. Be dull and cause to lose interest
   "the long presentation tired her";
   - bore

See also: effortful

Type of: arouse, consume, degenerate, deplete, deteriorate, devolve, drop, eat, eat up, elicit, enkindle [literary], evoke, exhaust, expend, indispose, kindle, provoke, raise, run through, use, use up, wipe out

Encyclopedia: Tire, Turkey