tirer

From Middle French tirer, from Old French tirer, from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre.

• IPA^(key): /ti.ʁe/

• Audio:

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tirer

1. to draw, drag, pull
2. to shoot
3. to draw (conclusions), to consider (consequences)
4. to leave a place
5. to set free, to deliver
   • 1954, Georges Simenon, Maigret et la jeune morte [Maigret and the Dead Girl]:

     Ils s’imaginent qu’en ne répondant pas, ou qu’en répondant n’importe quoi, quitte à se contredire toutes les cinq minutes, ils parviendront à s’en tirer.

     They imagine they can save themselves by refusing to answer questions—or by answering at random and even contradicting themselves every five minutes.

• tir
• tir à l’arc

• Haitian Creole: tire
• Louisiana Creole: tiré

• “tirer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• trier

From Old French tirer (“to draw; pull”), from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre. Compare the semantic development of French traire (“to milk”) < Old French traire (“to draw; pull”), according to the physical action that accompanies milking.

tirer

1. (transitive, agriculture) to milk (cows)

• tyrer

From Old French tirer.

tirer

1. to pull

• Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

• French: tirer
  • Haitian Creole: tire
  • Louisiana Creole: tiré

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *tīrāre.

tirer

1. to pull
   • c. 1210, Henri de Valenciennes, Histoire de l'empereur Henri de Constantinople:

     Ne onkes li Ascres ne tira ses regnes duskes a tant k'il vint a Niké le Grant

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• retirer

• Middle French: tirer
  • French: tirer
    • Haitian Creole: tire
    • Louisiana Creole: tiré
• Gallo: tirer