simple past tense and past participle of tire
"The old horse was completely tired from pulling the heavy cart all day long."
In plain English: To tire someone means to make them feel exhausted by using up their energy.
"I am tired of all this arguing and need a quiet night to rest."
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
"bromidic sermons"
"his remarks were trite and commonplace"
"hackneyed phrases"
"a stock answer"
"repeating threadbare jokes"
"parroting some timeworn axiom"
"the trite metaphor `hard as nails'"
In need of some rest or sleep.
"After working a twelve-hour shift, I was so tired that I could barely keep my eyes open while driving home."
In plain English: Tired means feeling very sleepy and lacking energy because you have been active for too long.
"I went to bed early because I was too tired from working all day."
Usage: Use tired to describe someone who needs rest due to physical exhaustion from activity rather than mental fatigue. It is often interchangeable with weary but implies a more common, everyday state of needing sleep after exertion.
Derived from Old French tierdre, meaning "to weary," this term originally described the state of being exhausted or fatigued. It entered Middle English as tyred before evolving into its modern form to denote physical or mental weariness.