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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary

tire the patience

Hello! I am uncertain about the meaning of the phrase "tiring the patience" in this sentence: "He never speaks without tiring the patience of all who hear him". Does "tire the patience" mean "make bored" or it means "irritate", ''annoy", "make someone lose their patience"? Thank you!
  

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Anonymous Does "tire the patience" mean "make bored" or it means "irritate", ''annoy", "make someone lose their patience"? Yes, that's right.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Does "tire the patience" mean "make bored" or it means "irritate", ''annoy", "make someone lose their patience"?
  • Yes, that's right.
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Anonymous Does "tire the patience" mean "make bored" or it means "irritate", ''annoy", "make someone lose their patience"?
Yes, that's right.
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The correct phrase is try the patience of a person.
'Try' here means 'test'.

Look here.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/try-one-s-patience
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CliveThe correct phrase is try the patience of a person.
Of course! I knew it rang oddly, but I couldn't put my finger on it.
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The point is that the phrase I cited is actually a quote from the eighteenth-century notes: one delegate of the Philadelphia Convention used this phrase in his diary to characterize another one. Is it possible that the phrase tire the patience was correct in the eighteenth century? Also, there is a phrase exhaust the patience which, I suppose, might mean approximately the same as
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If you try someone's patience, their patience begins to run out. If you exhaust their patience, they have none left.
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