fatigue
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cooking
engineering
food
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin fatīgārelbor.
French fatiguerdeverb.
French fatiguebor.
English fatigue
From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).
Inflected forms:
form: fatigues
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: fatigues
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: fatiguing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: fatigued
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: fatigued
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.
Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.
For some, the constant deluge that has peaked in the past year is starting to add up to a new (and previously unthinkable) feeling: Taylor Swift fatigue.
We found that a comprehensive fatigue management program can reduce fatigue-related crash risk and improve safety by, for example, educating drivers; had Triton had such a program, the driver may not have been operating the truck while fatigued.
gloss: A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
pos: noun
tags: countable
in-plural
often
uncountable
examples: Moreover, the habits of business are the most enduring of any; and Lord Norbourne's most positive enjoyment was in what are called the fatigues of office.
gloss: Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.
An investigation found that the rail had fragmented as trains passed over it, and that the likely cause was "rolling contact fatigue" defined as multiple surface-breaking cracks. Repeated high loading had caused fatigue cracks to grow, resulting in what is called gauge corner cracking.
gloss: To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.
gloss: To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.
Synonyms: fatigue
tiredness
exhaustedness
exhaustion
frazzle
wornness
weariness
Related words: drowsiness
lassitude
sweat
dyspnea
yawning
faintness
fainting
syncope
fatigued
sleepy
tire
fatigable
indefatigable
Derived words: alarm fatigue
alert fatigue
antifatigue
battle fatigue
Black fatigue
caution fatigue
chronic fatigue syndrome
combat fatigue
compassion fatigue
decision fatigue
digital fatigue
diversity fatigue
donor fatigue
driver fatigue
ear fatigue
fatigue duty
fatigueless
fatigue party
fatigues
fatiguesome
flavor fatigue
flavour fatigue
information fatigue
information fatigue syndrome
listener fatigue
listening fatigue
menu fatigue
negro fatigue
nigger fatigue
operational fatigue
postfatigue
post-viral fatigue syndrome
prefatigue
redemption fatigue
Zoom fatigue
overfatigue
fatiguability
indefatigability
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: väsyä