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tiring

verb
  1. To become sleepy or weary.

  2. To make sleepy or weary.

  3. To become bored or impatient (with).

    "I tire of this book."

verb
  1. To dress or adorn.

verb
  1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

  2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

noun
  1. The action of tiring.

  2. Bits of bone and tough organic material from a corpse given to hawks to abate their hunger.

adjective
  1. That tires or tire.

    "Carrying my bags up four flights of stairs is very tiring."

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