fatigue

• POS: Adjective, Noun, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fa=tigue

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]

Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties. -- Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers. -- Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. Farrow. -- Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.

fatigue, v. t. [Cf. F. fatiguer. See Fatigue, n.].

 To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

Syn. -- To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.

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.

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-weariness

ROGET THESAURUS

fatigue

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.