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fatigue
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| fatigue duty
| fatigue fracture
| fatigue party
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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun fatigue has 4 senses
- fatigue(n = noun.state) tiredness, weariness - temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep" is a kind of temporary state
- fatigue(n = noun.state) Array - used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue" is a kind of failing, weakness
- fatigue(n = noun.feeling) Array - (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something; "he was suffering from museum fatigue"; "after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"; "the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"; "political fatigue" is a kind of boredom, ennui, tedium
- fatigue(n = noun.act) fatigue duty - labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on); "the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"; "they were assigned to kitchen fatigues" is a kind of assignment, duty assignment
has particulars: asthenopia, eyestrain, jet lag, exhaustion, grogginess, logginess, loginess
Derived form verb fatigue2
Derived form verb fatigue1
Verb fatigue has 2 senses
- fatigue(v = verb.body) jade, pall, tire, weary - lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" is one way to degenerate, deteriorate, devolve, drop
- fatigue(v = verb.body) fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary - exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" is one way to indispose
Derived form noun fatigue3
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
Derived form noun fatigue1
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot fatigue Sue
CIDE DICTIONARY
fatigue, n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.].
- Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. [1913 Webster]
- The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
fatigue, n. & v.
--n.
1 extreme tiredness after exertion.
2 weakness in materials, esp. metal, caused by repeated variations of stress.
3 a reduction in the efficiency of a muscle, organ, etc., after prolonged activity.
4 an activity that causes fatigue.
5 a a non-military duty in the army, often as a punishment. b (in full fatigue-party) a group of soldiers ordered to do fatigues.
--v.tr. (fatigues, fatigued, fatiguing) cause fatigue in; tire, exhaust.
--n.
1 extreme tiredness after exertion.
2 weakness in materials, esp. metal, caused by repeated variations of stress.
3 a reduction in the efficiency of a muscle, organ, etc., after prolonged activity.
4 an activity that causes fatigue.
5 a a non-military duty in the army, often as a punishment. b (in full fatigue-party) a group of soldiers ordered to do fatigues.
--v.tr. (fatigues, fatigued, fatiguing) cause fatigue in; tire, exhaust.
Derivative
fatiguable adj. (also fatigable). fatiguability n. (also fatigability). fatigueless adj.
Etymology
F fatigue, fatiguer f. L fatigare tire out
THESAURUS
fatigue
abatement, abscess, acedia, adynamia, ague, anemia, ankylosis, annoy, anoxia, apathy, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atony, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, backache, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, blah feeling, bleeding, blennorhea, bloodlessness, blow, blunting, boredom, bother, break down, burn out, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, collapse, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cowardice, crack up, cyanosis, damping, deadening, debilitate, debilitation, debility, deplete, devitalization, diarrhea, dilution, dirty work, disable, dizziness, do in, do up, donkeywork, drag on, drain, droop, drop, dropsy, drowsiness, drudgery, dulling, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, effemination, emaciation, employment, enervate, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, etiolation, evisceration, exhaust, exhaustion, extenuation, fag, fag out, faint, fainting, faintness, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flabbiness, flaccidity, flag, flux, frazzle, gasp, get tired, give out, glut, go on forever, grind, grow weary, growth, handiwork, handwork, harass, heaviness, hebetude, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, impotence, inanimation, inanition, indifference, indigestion, industry, inflammation, insomnia, irk, itching, jade, jadedness, jaundice, knock out, knock up, labor, labored breathing, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lick, lick of work, lifelessness, listlessness, low blood pressure, lumbago, manual labor, marasmus, mitigation, moil, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, oscitancy, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pain, pall, pant, paralysis, passivity, peter out, phlegm, play out, poop, poop out, prostrate, prostration, pruritus, puff, puff and blow, rash, rat race, reduction, relaxation, rheum, run down, run out, satedness, satiate, sclerosis, scut work, seizure, shock, sink, skin eruption, slackening, slavery, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, sneezing, softening, softness, somnolence, sore, spadework, spasm, strengthlessness, stroke, stroke of work, stupefaction, stupor, succumb, supineness, sweat, tabes, tachycardia, task, thinning, tire, tire out, tire to death, tiredness, tiresome work, toil, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, travail, treadmill, tucker, tumor, upset stomach, use up, vertigo, vex, vomiting, wasting, weaken, weakening, weakliness, weakness, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weariness, weary, wheeze, wilt, wind, work, world-wearinessROGET THESAURUS
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Fatigue
N fatigue, weariness, yawning, drowsiness, lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion, sweat, dyspnoea, anhelation, shortness of breath, faintness, collapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy, goneness, fatigued, tired, weary, drowsy, drooping, haggard, toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beaten, faint, done up, used up, knocked up, bushed, exhausted, prostrate, spent, overtired, overspent, overfatigued, unrefreshed, unrestored, worn, worn out, battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered, breathless, windless, short of breath, out of breath, short of wind, blown, puffing and blowing, short-breathed, anhelose, broken winded, short-winded, dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic, ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat, fatiguing, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, weary, trying.VB be fatigued, yawn, droop, sink, flag, lose breath, lose wind, gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb, fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate, tax, task, strain, overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.
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