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as a verb: - 1
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fatigue
noun
1 fatigue
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.
synonyms: tiredness, weariness.
Roget 688:
fatigue;
weariness
etc.
841;
yawning,
drowsiness
etc.
683;
lassitude,
tiredness,
fatigation†,
exhaustion;
sweat;
dyspnoea.
anhelation,
shortness of breath;
faintness;
collapse,
prostration,
swoon,
fainting,
deliquium [Lat.],
syncope,
lipothymy†;
goneness†.
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Dutch: moeheid, vermoeidheid, vermoeienis
Polish: zmęczenie
2 fatigue
Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress.
3 fatigue
always used with a modifier Boredom resulting from overexposure to something.
4 fatigue
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.
synonym: fatigue duty.
verb
1 fatigue
Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody.
synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary.
2 fatigue
Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress.
synonyms: fag, fag out, jade, outwear, tire, tire out, wear, wear down, wear out, wear upon, weary ... show more.
Roget 688:
be fatigued
etc.
adj.;
yawn
etc.
(get sleepy)
683;
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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Dutch: afbeulen, afpeigeren, afsloven
Moby thesaurus: 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-weariness ... show more.
fatiguing
adjective
Roget 688:
fatigued,
tired
etc.
v.;
weary
etc.
841;
drowsy
etc.
683;
drooping
etc.
v.;
haggard;
toilworn†,
wayworn:,
footsore,
surbated†,
weather-beaten;
faint;
done up,
used up,
knocked up;
bushed [U.S.];
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 [Fr.].
fatiguing
etc.
v.;
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome;
weary,
trying.
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Moby thesaurus: boresome, boring, devitalizing, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, grueling, irksome, killing, punishing, sapping, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weakening, weariful, wearing, wearisome, wearying, yawny ... show more.
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