I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tired cliché (= boring because it has been used so often )
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The story is based on a series of tired clichés.
desperately poor/ill/tired etc
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He was desperately ill with a fever.
look tired/happy/sad etc
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You look tired. You should go to bed.
old though it is/tired though he was etc
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Strange though it may seem, I like housework.
sleepy/tired
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His eyes looked sleepy.
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Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
sleepy/tired ( also weary literary )
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He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
snow tire
though old/tired etc
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The rooms, though small, were pleasant and airy.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be sick (and tired) of (doing) sth
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Gad, I was sick and tired of life.
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I think the archivist who helped me is sick of the sight of me by now.
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I was sick of concealments - those retentions of his.
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I was sick of following baseball through the abbreviated box scores of the international Herald Tribune.
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No one, knowing the Patriarch, could doubt that, after a day of his voice, Zacco was sick of him.
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People were sick of the war.
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We are sick and tired of the proliferation of guns.
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When we first started we were sick of the way many groups would adopt a cool persona for interviews.
tired of (doing) sth
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But by then, the hedgehog was tired of waiting and was walking away across the croquet-ground.
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His sister, Marie, his children-they had all grown tired of him.
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I am old, and tired of life.
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It was April, his children were tired of riding, and his wife, Clara, was pregnant.
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It was possible, of course, but not likely that Zacco had grown tired of his Christmas truce.
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She is tired of being asked.
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This line has won him widespread backing among middle class voters tired of 17 uninterrupted years of Tory rule.
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We are getting tired of people behaving like prima donnas.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I felt as if I could run all day without tiring.
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I won't tire you with a long visit. I just wanted to stop in and see how you were doing.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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That coming from him who would go sick with a bad back whenever a job tired him.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
flat
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He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire , police said.
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If you have a flat tire , stuff like that happens.
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The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.
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She explains to Jose that they have a flat tire and muse go back down the road to the big house.
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Suppose he had a flat tire ?
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Tight shoes A motorcycle with two flat tires .
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In the above case, it would be contextually inappropriate to be only reporting a flat tire at a gas station.
■ NOUN
maker
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In order to make up for falling retail prices, tire makers have been struggling to raise prices to car makers.
■ VERB
burn
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Texas-Lehigh Cement Company in Buda was recently granted a permit to burn tires for fuel.
change
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He had no useful information about the shooting that took place nearby as Cosby changed a flat tire , police said.
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When we reached the car, I held a flashlight while Lydell White Plume changed the tire .
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The doctoral student was apparently attempting to change a flat tire when his assailant struck.
make
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That can make the tires slippery.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Commission officials said tire burning is not new to Texas.
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Now the tire companies have fought back.
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On the concrete floor inside are tire tracks, and skid marks where kids have done wheelies or donuts.
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That can make the tires slippery.