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Fatigue

noun

1.

Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work. Synonyms: tiredness, weariness. "Growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills" , "Weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep"

2.

Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress.

3.

(always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something. "After watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue" , "The American public is experiencing scandal fatigue" , "Political fatigue"

4.

Labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on). Synonym: fatigue duty. "They were assigned to kitchen fatigues"

verb

(past & past part. fatigued; pres. part. fatiguing)

1.

Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody. Synonyms: jade, pall, tire, weary.

2.

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.

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"Fatigue" Quotes from Famous Books

... thy songs around the campfires at night after our long marches and counter-marches when we hung upon Cornwallis's flank or raced toward Petersburg to beat Phillips! 'Twas a very girl's voice then, but it could make us forget fatigue and ...

— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe

... Trinidad and the continent of America, near the mouth of the Orinoco. In 1502, he made a fourth and last voyage, in which he explored some part of the shores of the Gulph of Mexico. The ungrateful return he met with from his country is well known: worn out with fatigue, disappointment, and sorrow, he died at Valladolid, on the 20th of May, 1506, in the fifty-ninth year of ...

— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson

... forenoon was spent in surveying and making what measurements could be made in the absence of the instruments lost in the upset. At noon, after having spent just twenty-four hours at Grand Falls, the party turned back. The very fact of having succeeded, made distance shorter and fatigue more easily borne, so they travelled along at a rattling pace, surveying at times and little thinking of the disaster that had befallen them. Camp was made on the river bank, beneath one of the terraces which lined ...

— Bowdoin Boys in Labrador • Jonathan Prince (Jr.) Cilley

... now full of smoke. The dense cloud completely hid the sun. Among the great pines it was almost like twilight. Charley pushed on as fast as his weary legs could carry him. More than once he tripped and fell. He could no longer see distinctly. Fatigue and the smoke in his eyes blurred his vision. He was scratched and torn and his hands were a mass of little burns. Charley scarcely noticed them. His mind was wholly intent on getting help and saving the forest. Nothing else ...

— The Young Wireless Operator--As a Fire Patrol - The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol • Lewis E. Theiss

... impulsiveness, seemed the more enchanting because John himself was of the look-before-you-leap, think-before-you-speak, sort. One Sunday evening they were hurrying back to Chapel, when they passed a woman carrying a heavy child. The poor creature appeared to be almost fainting with fatigue and possibly hunger. Her pinched face, her bent figure, her thin garments, bespoke a passionate protest against conditions which obviously she was powerless to avert or control. The boys glanced at her with pitying eyes as they passed. ...

— The Hill - A Romance of Friendship • Horace Annesley Vachell

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