# Is tires = fatigue a word?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [January 6, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707 "2024-01-06T19:06:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/1 "2024-01-06T19:06:27Z")
I keep thinking of tires as the round, rubber things on a car.
I’ve heard tires = fatigue all my life.
It’s not in the directory?
What?? No s?
> **[Definition of TIRE](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tire)**
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> to become weary; to exhaust or greatly decrease the physical strength of : fatigue; to wear out the patience of : bore… See the full definition
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/2 "2024-01-06T19:10:33Z")
**tire** = to become fatigued
**tire** (also **tyre** ): a rubber cushion around the wheel of a bicycle, motor-car, etc.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/3 "2024-01-06T19:11:48Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> What?? No s? -
The phrase “She/He tires easily.” comes to mind.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/4 "2024-01-06T19:11:51Z")
I like running hut it tires my legs is incorrect?
I hear it used that way in conversations.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/5 "2024-01-06T19:12:50Z")
“He tires easily” = “he becomes fatigued easily” = tires is a word.
I’m not sure why you expect the dictionary to show the conjugation of a common intransitive verb.
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/6 "2024-01-06T19:13:18Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> I like running hut it tires my legs is incorrect?
It’s fine. Those are two different words that happen to be spelled the same (homographs). Also, one is a verb, and the other is a noun.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/7 "2024-01-06T19:15:05Z")
Thank you,
I checked the dictionary because tires just looks so wrong. I thought it might need a apostrophe.
I’m more accustomed to hearing it in a sentence.
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/8 "2024-01-06T19:16:07Z")
tire = fatigue
tires = fatigues
tired = fatigued
tiring = fatiguing
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/9 "2024-01-06T19:26:18Z")
Sometimes my dyslexia confuses me and I reach for a dictionary when a word doesn’t look right in a sentence.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/10 "2024-01-06T19:36:17Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> I checked the dictionary because tires just looks so wrong. I thought it might need a apostrophe.
Apostrophes are for possessives, contractions, and grocery store employees.
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### Author:  [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/11 "2024-01-06T19:54:40Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Sometimes my dyslexia confuses me and I reach for a dictionary when a word doesn’t look right in a sentence.
Which is a perfectly reasonable thing and is one of the jobs that dictionaries are supposed to do.
You could also just move to Britain or Australia where the wheel thing is spelled tyre, and there is no confusion at all with feeling shagged.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/12 "2024-01-06T20:00:11Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#):
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> You could also just move to Britain or Australia where the wheel thing is spelled tyre, and there is no confusion at all with feeling shagged.
To avoid confusion beween tire and tire you could also move to Tyre, where the word is spelled إطار العجلة.
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### Author:  [@JeffB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JeffB)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/13 "2024-01-06T20:11:16Z")
> [@Banksiaman](#):
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> You could also just move to Britain or Australia where the wheel thing is spelled tyre, and there is no confusion at all with feeling shagged.
It’s not uncommon to feel tired after being shagged.
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### Author:  [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/14 "2024-01-06T20:52:26Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#):
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> tire = fatigue
> tires = fatigues
> tired = fatigued
> tiring = fatiguing
"Tarred owt " = the way they say it in Beck’s neck of the woods.
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### Author:  [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/15 "2024-01-06T20:53:52Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Sometimes my dyslexia confuses me and I reach for a dictionary when a word doesn’t look right in a sentence.
When it is really bad you reach for the dictionary and grab a cookbook…
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### Author:  [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/16 "2024-01-06T22:33:48Z")
I saw the word “wordnesia” recently, but it looked so weird I was sure it must be spelled wrong.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/17 "2024-01-06T22:38:50Z")
> [@mixdenny](#):
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> When it is really bad you reach for the dictionary and grab a cookbook…
…to make word salad?
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/18 "2024-01-06T23:15:04Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Sometimes my dyslexia confuses me and I reach for a dictionary when a word doesn’t look right in a sentence.
I recall when I was a teen and long before the internet, I wrote that, “I am shore…”
I immediately realized that it was wrong but after some time could not come up with a alternate spelling that didn’t start with _sh_, so couldn’t look it up. Annoyed at my mental block I rewrote it as, “I am certain…” Shortly after _sure_ popped into my head.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/19 "2024-01-06T23:15:20Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> I’m not sure why you expect the dictionary to show the conjugation of a common intransitive verb.
Yes, in English the third person singular present form of regular verbs end in **s**.
I eat, you eat, he/she/it eats.
I walk, you walk, he/she/it walks.
I tire, you tire, he/she/it tires.
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### Author:  [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2024, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-tires-fatigue-a-word/995707/20 "2024-01-06T23:45:29Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> Sometimes my dyslexia confuses me and I reach for a dictionary when a word doesn’t look right in a sentence.
I’m not dyslexic, but I sometimes have something similar happen to me when I start questioning the spelling of a word, then I “think too hard about it” and lose all intuitive feel for the correct spelling, and nothing looks right.
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