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fatigue

Roget category 688

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
5.3. Voluntary action
›› 5.3.1. Simple voluntary action

#688. Fatigue

noun

fatigueweariness etc. 841yawning, drowsiness etc. 683lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustionsweatdyspnoea.
anhelation, shortness of breathfaintnesscollapse, prostration, swoon, fainting, deliquium [Lat.], syncope, lipothymygoneness.

verb

be fatigued etc. adj. — yawn etc. (get sleepy) 683droop, sink, flaglose breath, lose windgasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint, succumb.
fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.
tax, task, strainovertask, overwork, overburden, overtax, overstrain.

adjective

fatigued, tired etc. v. — weary etc. 841drowsy etc. 683drooping etc. v. — haggardtoilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated, weather-beatenfaintdone up, used up, knocked upbushed [U.S.]exhausted, prostrate, spentovertired, overspent, overfatiguedunrefreshed, unrestored.
worn, worn outbattered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.
breathless, windlessshort of breath, out of breath, short of windblown, puffing and blowingshort-breathedanhelosebroken winded, short-windeddyspnaeal, 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, wearisomeweary, trying.

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