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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tireless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Lynch's tireless efforts to help the homeless will not be forgotten.
▪ Martin was a very popular teacher and a tireless worker for the school.
▪ She has been a tireless peace campaigner for many years.
▪ The prisoners were finally released, thanks to the tireless efforts of their families and friends.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Blanchard was steady as stone, tireless.
▪ But the blackguard was just as tireless.
▪ But the rain has no effect on the tireless hostility of local life forms.
▪ From the right, there remain the tireless attacks from Pat Buchanan.
▪ I pay tribute to the tireless efforts of members of the campaign committee.
▪ She became a tireless champion of Aurangzeb's interests, making little secret of her hatred for Dara and Jahanara.
▪ We both employed local Arussi as trackers, some of whom were very skilful and all of whom were tireless.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tireless

Tireless \Tire"less\, a. Untiring.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tireless

1590s, "indefatigable," from tire (v.) + -less. From 1862 in the sense "without a tire," from tire (n.). Related: Tirelessly.

Wiktionary
tireless

Etymology 1 a. indefatigable, untiring and not yielding to fatigue Etymology 2

a. Without a tire (wheel covering); tyreless.

WordNet
tireless
  1. adj. showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality; "an indefatigable advocate of equal rights"; "a tireless worker"; "unflagging pursuit of excellence" [syn: indefatigable, unflagging, unwearying]

  2. characterized by hard work and perseverance [syn: hardworking, industrious, untiring]

Usage examples of "tireless".

I remember thinking that the abo who had given McIlroy the directions must have been a hell of a tireless walker.

The other British force which faced the Boers who were advancing through Stormberg was commanded by General Gatacre, a man who bore a high reputation for fearlessness and tireless energy, though he had been criticised, notably during the Soudan campaign, for having called upon his men for undue and unnecessary exertion.

The constantly increasing accumulation of pieces of machinery, big brass castings, block tin, casks, crates, and packages of innumerable articles, by their demands for space, necessitated the sacrifice of most of the slighter partitions of the house, and the beams and flooring of the upper chambers were also mercilessly sawn away by the tireless scientist in such a way as to convert them into mere shelves and corner brackets of the atrial space between cellars and rafters.

The auriferous tooth, the sedentary disposition, the Sunday afternoon wanderlust, the draught upon the delicatessen store for home-made comforts, the furor for department store marked-down sales, the feeling of superiority to the lady in the third-floor front who wore genuine ostrich tips and had two names over her bell, the mucilaginous hours during which she remained glued to the window sill, the vigilant avoidance of the instalment man, the tireless patronage of the acoustics of the dumb-waiter shaft - all the attributes of the Gotham flat-dweller were hers.

What Bozo was striving to accomplish with all the tireless devotion of his brave heart was, in fact, an almost impossible task.

Eventually Bram lost Mim to an older manOlan Byr, a musician like herself, who had made a name for himself as a tireless interpreter of the old music.

Into the dossier it goes, and eventually the Firm, in Their tireless search for negotiable skills, will summon him under Whitehall, to observe him in his trances across the blue baize fields and the terrible paper gaming, his eyes rolled back into his head reading old, glyptic old graffiti on his own sockets.

The girl seemed as tireless as ever, but long before they reached the caravan Kelder was panting and stumbling.

Tolito tossing Kook the seven-year-old about the car like a beanbag, and behind it all, clobbering polyrhythmic to the racketing of the shuttle, Jose on his tin drum, forearms and hands vibrating out beyond the persistence of vision, and a tireless smile across his teeth wide as the West Side.

The tireless Ung Lik Dy pressed on, his shining sword humming as it cut through the air.

Without your tireless effort, the motherland would be a less secure place to live.

Enormous of heart, possessed of a cutting intelligence, charismatic, articulate, and tireless, Roz was, in a word, compelling, and Kate was no more immune to her charm than anyone else.

Mine was not the spirit of tireless philanthropy, which could go on toiling for the benefit of the race without enthusiasm yet without cessation--ohne Haste, ohne Raste--till the worn frame and wearied mind lapsed simultaneously.

Colney Durance could excuse the unreasonableness in her, for it had a dignity, and she controlled it, and quietly suffered, trusting to the steady, tireless, concentrated aim of her France.

But Balza was tireless, moving silently in the footsteps of her man, as she now considered Tarzan.