'Fatigue' definitions:
Definition of 'fatigue'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: fatigue, weariness, tiredness]
noun
Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue"
noun
(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"
noun
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" [syn: fatigue duty, fatigue]
verb
Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]
verb
Definition of 'Fatigue'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Fatigue'
From: GCIDE
- Fatigue \Fa*tigue"\, n. [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]
- 1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fatigue'
From: 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