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Welcome to this guide on the best words that rhyme with ire!
Here you’ll find the top 23 words and phrases for rhyming the word ‘ire’.
Pretty cool huh?
Let’s get started…
Words That Rhyme With Ire
- Admire – to regard with wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- Afire – on fire; burning.
- Aspire – to direct one’s hopes or ambitions towards achieving something.
- Byre – a shelter for cows or other livestock.
- Dire – extremely serious or urgent.
- Expire – to come to an end; to die.
- Inquire – to ask for information; to investigate.
- Inspire – to fill someone with the urge or ability to do or feel something, especially to do something creative.
- Lyre – a small harp, used especially in ancient Greece.
- Mire – a stretch of swampy or boggy ground.
- Perspire – to sweat.
- Quire – a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality.
- Reacquire – to regain possession of something.
- Rehire – to employ someone again.
- Respire – to breathe.
- Retire – to leave one’s job or position, especially on reaching a particular age.
- Retrofire – to ignite a rocket motor in the opposite direction to that of the flight to slow down or stop the vehicle.
- Shire – a county in England.
- Skier – a person who skis.
- Spire – a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower.
- Squire – a man of high social standing who owns and lives on an estate in a rural area.
- Tripwire – a wire stretched across a path which, when trodden on or disturbed, activates a mechanism for detonating a bomb or other trap.
- Tyre – a rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed around a wheel to form a soft contact with the road.
