Is tires = fatigue a word?

[engineer_comp_geek]

Apparently you didn’t look in the right dictionary.

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/tire

Word forms: tires 3rd person singular present tense, tiring present participle, tired past tense past participle

1. TRANSITIVE VERB/INTRANSITIVE VERB

If something tires you or you tire, you feel that you have used a lot of energy and you want to rest or sleep.

If driving tires you, take the train.

Synonyms: exhaust, drain, fatigue, weary More Synonyms of tire

2. INTRANSITIVE VERB [no passive]

If you tire of something, you no longer wish to do it, because you have become bored of it or unhappy with it.

He felt he would never tire of listening to her stories.

3. COUNTABLE NOUN

A tire is a thick piece of rubber which is fitted onto the wheels of vehicles such as cars, buses, and bicycles.

REGIONAL NOTE: in BRIT, use tyre

To be fair, a few other dictionaries also did not have “tires”, only tire and tired.

[aceplace57]

Glad to get that cleared up.

I was writing a reddit post and was concerned about car tire jokes if I used tires. I ended up substituting a different word.

Someone mentioned above that questioning our spelling can lead to confusion.

[gnarator]

@Darren_Garrison

Apostrophes are for possessives, contractions, and grocery store employees.

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[Atamasama]

@Thudlow_Boink

Yes, in English the third person singular present form of regular verbs end in s.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of an exception but I don’t think there is one. This is universal.

Sometimes the spelling changes, so for example “try” becomes “tries”, but there is still an “s”.

If you have a regular verb, there will be a valid form with an “s” at the end.

[Andy_L]

@running_coach

The phrase “She/He tires easily.” comes to mind.

That phrase tires me out.

[running_coach]

@Andy_L

@running_coach

The phrase “She/He tires easily.” comes to mind.

That phrase tires me out. -

You know why bicycles fall over?

They’re two tired.

[Riemann]

@Atamasama

@Thudlow_Boink

Yes, in English the third person singular present form of regular verbs end in s.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to think of an exception but I don’t think there is one.

(Well, an exception would be an irregular verb…)

But I think you’re right, all the irregular verbs end in “s” too, except modal verbs which is cheating.

[DPRK]

I wot
thou wost
he/she/it wot
we wit
they wit

[Exapno_Mapcase]

That’s why we voted Middle English out of the language in the by-election of 1678.