Fatigue

Definition: Fatigue

Fatigue

Noun

1. Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work.

2. (of materials (especially metals)) the state of being weakened by long stress: "metal fatigue".

3. (always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure; "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".

4. 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".

Verb

1. Get tired of something or somebody.

2. Exhaust or tire though overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "fatigue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Aerospace

Dream Interpretation

Health

Medicine

Metallurgy

Mining

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Synonyms: Fatigue

Fatigue

Noun: fatigue; weariness; yawning, drowsiness; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation, exhaustion; sweat; dyspnoea.

Fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear out, prostrate.

Crosswords: Fatigue

French (exerting, exertion, exhaustion, failure, fatigue, letdown, overstrain, strain, tiredness, weariness).

There's serious metal fatigue in all the load-bearing members, the wiring is substandard, it's completely inadequate for our power needs, and the neighborhood is like a demilitarized zone (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

And if you want to talk about your oath of office, I'm here to tell you face to face, President Lyman, that you violated that oath when you stripped this country of its muscles -- when you deliberately played upon the fear and fatigue of the people and told them they could remove that fear by the stroke of a pen. And then when this nation rejected you, lost faith in you, and began militantly to oppose you, you violated that oath by not resigning from office and turning the country over to someone who could represent the people of the United States (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II)

Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue a feeling of emptiness followed (Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb; writing credit: Peter George; Stanley Kubrick)

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References

• The Official Patient's Sourcebook on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Parting the Fog: The Personal Side of Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (reference)

• The Food Allergy Cure: A New Solution to Food Cravings, Obesity, Depression, Headaches, Arthritis, and Fatigue (reference)

• Shoulder Bursitis Tennis Elbow Forearm Fatigue (reference)

• Mechanical Behavior of Materials: Engineering Methods for Deformation, Fracture, and Fatigue (2nd Edition) (reference)

• Fretting Fatigue (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Journal Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (reference)

• Natl Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Chronic Fatigue Syndrome And Fibromyalgia Action Network Membership (reference)

• Fatigue & Fracture Of Engineering Materials & Structures (reference)

• Chronic Fatigue & Immune Dysfunction Syndrome Association Of (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Driver Fatigue Training Kit (reference)

• Health Talks at The Cleveland Clinic Presents - Fatigue, Pain, Insomnia: Disturbances of the Mind / Body Relationship (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Fatigue Chic [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Metal Fatigue (reference)

• Pas Fatigue [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Metal Fatigue (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Trichinosis, or trichinellosis, is caused by eating raw or undercooked pork infected with the larvae of a species of worm called Trichinella. Initial symptoms include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, fatigue, fever, and abdominal discomfort. Credit: CDC.

Rabies in humans is almost always fatal. Symptoms may be headache, fatigue, fever and pain at the site of the bite can be present. Behavioral changes like apprehension, anxiety, agitation, irritability, insomnia and depression may also appear. Credit: CDC.

This patient developed eyebrow alopecia during the secondary stage of syphilis. Other symptoms that may occur during this stage are mild fever, fatigue, headache, sore throat and swollen lymph glands. Credit: CDC.

Pilot Fatigue Countermeasures. Credit: NASA.

W. H. Burger observing Note standing straight up to observe - minimizing fatigue Level crew of W. H. Burger. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Moss Wobblemeter Test For Determining Fatigue As Expressed By Neuromuscular Instability : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Coca Wine. : For Fatigue of Mind and Body. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

[Russian poster: An exercise break reduces fatigue, increases efficiency and strengthens health]. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Fatigue uniform worn by "Flying Sergeants," Lake Muroc, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Give full play to our style of fighting--courage in battle, no fear of sacrifice, no fear of fatigue, and continuous fighting (that is, fighting successive battles in a short time without rest). Credit: Library of Congress.

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There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1940)

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He walked along in this way some time, going by chance down streets unknown to him, and forgetting fatigue, as is the case in sorrow

The dancers stood still, panting with fatigue.

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Health

Total duration of fatigue. (references)

You may find this helps with fatigue. (references)

Fatigue (feeling very weak and tired). (references)

Civil Liberties

Singapore

Soon thereafter, the founder and sponsor of the site shut it down, citing fatigue after 7 years on the job. (references)

Travel

Mexico

Insomnia, fatigue, circulatory problems, symptoms of dehydration, and nausea are common, but pass quickly. (references)

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Expressions using "fatigue": accelerated fatigue test ♦ acoustic fatigue ♦ Auditory Fatigue ♦ battle fatigue ♦ chronic fatigue ♦ chronic fatigue syndrome ♦ combat fatigue ♦ dexterity fatigue ♦ drop with fatigue ♦ extreme fatigue ♦ Fatigue call ♦ fatigue clothes ♦ fatigue crack ♦ fatigue detail ♦ Fatigue dress ♦ Fatigue duty ♦ fatigue fracture ♦ fatigue life ♦ fatigue load ♦ Fatigue party ♦ fatigue strength ♦ fatigue strength at N cycles ♦ fatigue strength for finite life ♦ flexural fatigue strength ♦ material fatigue ♦ Mental Fatigue ♦ metal fatigue ♦ Muscle Fatigue ♦ muscular fatigue ♦ phosphor fatigue ♦ psychological fatigue ♦ safe fatigue limit ♦ suffer from fatigue. Additional references.

Beginning with "fatigue": fatigue-decreased, fatigue-producing, fatigue-resistant.

Ending with "fatigue": anti-fatigue.

Albanian

lodhje e metaleve, lodhje (emaciation, harassment, lassitude, strain, straining, tiredness, Tucker, weakening, weariness), lodh (badger, beat, harass, irk, jade, overdo, overdrive, overstrain, overstrain oneself, strain, tire, try, Tucker, wear, wear down, wear out, work). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كد (diligence, drudgery, exert oneself, exhaust, industry, overwork, sedulity, toil, work hard), ‏ملل (bore, boredom, ennui, monotony, ponderosity, tedium, tiredness, weariness), ‏نهك (exhaust, fray, frazzle, gruel, harass, jade, macerate, overdo, overload, overstrain, prostrate, spend, wear), ‏نصب كد أو عناء (toil), ‏تعب (failure, go flat out, grow tired, languishment, languor, lassitude, pan, punish, stress, take trouble, tell on, tire, tiredness, toil, try, tucker, weariness, weary), ‏السخرة, ‏إعياء (exhaustion, overwork, tiredness), ‏إجهاد (exertion, overwork, strain, stress), ‏أرهق (beat, break, exhaust, gruel, harass, labor, labour, lie, load, overload, overstrain, pump, run down, saddle, soak, squeeze, tax, try, tucker, weary, weigh, weigh down, weight). (various references)

Basque

nekatu (fatigue o.self out to). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уморявам (beat, jade, tire, weary), умора (distress, lassitude, weariness), наряд (detail, fatigue duty, quota), изтощение (depletion, distress, enervation, exhaustion, fag, frazzle, lassitude, prostration, strain, weariness), изтощавам (bucket, crock, deplete, distress, do in, emaciate, exhaust, extend, fag, farm out, frazzle, gruel, impoverish, kill, leech, overcrop, overwork, play out, poop, prostrate, pump, pump out, punish, rack, reduce, run down, sew up, spend, tire out, tucker, waste), изтощителна работа, износване (abrasion, runout, waste, wear, wear and tear), износвам (outwear, wear, wear down, wear out). (various references)

Chinese 

疲劳 (Fatigued, fatigues, Fatiguing), 疲勞 (wearily, weariness, weary), 殢 . (various references)

Czech

zemdlenost, vyèerpat (deplete, do up, drain, enervate, exhaust, suck up, tire out, use up, wear, work out), unavit (do up, exhaust, tire, wear out, weary), únava (lassitude, tiredness, weariness). (various references)

Danish

udmattelse (attrition, exhaustion, fag, strain, tiredness), træthed (lassitude), exhaustio (exhaustion). (various references)

Dutch

afmatten (fag out, jade, overdrive, override, tire out), afjakkeren (fag out, jade, overdrive, override, tire out), afbeulen (fag out, jade, overdrive, override, tire out). (various references)

Esperanto

ellacigi (fag out, jade, overdrive, override, tire out). (various references)

Finnish

uupumus (exhaustion, prostration). (various references)

French

fatigue (failure), épuisement. (various references)

German

ermüdung (fatique, tiredness, weariness), ermattung (exhaustion, jadedness, weariness), ermüden (become tired, get tired, tire, to get tired, to tire, tyre), erschöpfung (depletion, distress, effeteness, exhaustion, impoverishment, prostration). (various references)

Greek 

κόπωση (tiredness, weariness), κούραση (lassitude, tiredness, weariness, wearisomeness). (various references)

Hebrew 

לאות (exhaustion, weariness), עיפות (languishment, languor, lassitude, tiredness, weariness), עיף (exhausted, jaded, tired, washed out, weary), עפוי (weariness), התיגעות (becoming tired, weariness), התעיפות (becoming tired, weariness). (various references)

Hungarian

fáraszt (bore, irk, to fag, to fatigue, to haze, to irk, to play, to tire, to trouble), fáradtság (languidity, lassitude, tire, tiredness, weariness), fáradt (aweary, a-weary, deadbeat, exhaust, exhausted, fatigued, feel tired, heavy, jaded, languid, tired, to feel tired, used, weary, worn out), fáradság (pains, trouble), vesződség, szolgálatban felmerülő munka, strapa (elbow grease, exaction, sweat, swelter), soros munka (fatigue duty, fatigue-duty), kimerültség (brain-fag, debility, exhaustion, fatigue-fever, goneness, lassitude, prostration, weariness), kifáradás, elfáradás, büntetésül kiszabott munka, öl hosszmérték. (various references)

Indonesian

kepenatan (tired, weariness), kepayahan (difficulty, exhausted, weariness), kejerihan (overly fatigued, weariness). (various references)

Italian

stancare (annoy, bore, fag, fag out, get tired, jade, overdrive, overexert, override, tire, tire out, weary), affaticare (fag, fag out, get tired, jade, make an effort, overdo, overdrive, override, strain, task, tire, tire out, try), stanchezza (lassitude, tiredness, weariness), fatica (difficulty, effort, endeavour, exertion, fag, labor, labour, pain, strain, toil, trouble). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

疲労 (weariness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しょろう (age 40, aging, illness, middle-aged), ひろう (announcement, low rank, opening of one's heart, to find, to gather, to pick up, vulgarity, weariness, wickedness), つかれ (tiredness), こんぱい (exhaustion), けんたい (boredom, combination, combined use, filling two positions, give one's body to a hospital for medical research, languor, sample, serving two purposes, specimen, sword belt, weariness), ちからおとし (disappointment, discouragement, loss of energy). (various references)

Korean 

피로. (various references)

Manx

tooilleil (donkey-work, drudge, drudgery, laboriousness, labour, tire, tiresomeness, toil, travail, weary; wearying; elbow grease), skeeys (lassitude, tiredness, weariness, wearisomeness), kiartag (chore, job, task), jannoo skee (tire), deinys (inconvenience, irksomeness, laboriousness, weariness), deinaghey, brishlid (brittleness, crispness, fragility). (various references)

Norwegian

tretthet. (various references)

Occitan

cansar (se) (fatigue o.self out). (various references)

Pig Latin

atiguefay.(various references)

Portuguese

fadiga (difficulty, hardship, toil, weariness, weight, work, works). (various references)

Romanian

osteni (tire, toil, weary), ostenealã (effort, endeavor, endeavour, exertion, exhaustion, pain, painstaking, tiredness, trouble), obosi (get tired, tire, try, weary), obosealã (fag, languor, lassitude, tedium, tiredness, weariness), istovire (distress, exhaustion). (various references)

Russian 

усталость (lassitude, tiredness, weariness). (various references)

Scottish

sgìthich (become weary), sgìos, sàraich (harass, injure, tire, wrong), airsneal (heaviness, sadness, weariness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zamor (lassitude), umor (lassitude, tiredness, weariness), sustalost (tiredness). (various references)

Spanish

fatiga (harassment, labor, labour, toil). (various references)

Swedish

utmattning (exhaustion, inanition, prostration), trötta (tire, weary), strapats (hardship). (various references)

Thai

เหนื่อยล้า, ทำให้เหนื่อยล้า, ความเหนื่อยล้า. (various references)

Turkish

yorulmak (be done, be tired, exhaust, fag, feel tired, get tired, tire, wear out), yormak (attribute, cream, do in, do up, exhaust, fag, fag out, frazzle, knock out, poop, prostrate, strain, take out, task, tax, tire, try, Tucker, tucker out, wear out, wearisome, weary), yorgunluk (exhaustion, fag, lassitude, staleness, tiredness, weariness), tükenmişlik, dayanıklılığını yitirme, bitkinlik (deadness, exhaustion, fag, frazzle, languor, lassitude, over-fatigue, prostration, staleness, weariness), angarya (angary, corvee, drudgery, fag, fatigue duty, forced labor, slavery, sweat, task). (various references)

Turkmen 

яadawlyk. (various references)

Ukrainian

стомлюватися (spend oneself, tire, weary), стомлювати (dull, fag, gruel, irk, tire, try, wear, weary), стомлення, стомливість (tedium, weariness), втома (weariness), зморювати (atrophy, emaciate, exhaust, over-fatigue). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự mệt mỏi (lassitude, weariedness, weariness). (various references)

Welsh

lludded (weariness). (various references)

fatigari, fatigati, fatigatione, fatigatis, fatigatus, fatigemini, fatigeris, fatigo, labor. (various references)

fatigue. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "fatigue": fatigued, fatigues. (additional references)

Words ending with "fatigue": antifatigue, overfatigue. (additional references)

Words containing "fatigue": overfatigued, overfatigues. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Fatigue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aligue, Baigue, Faigele, Faipule, faiyum, fatige, fatigure, Fatiou, Fatipur, fatique, fatiuge, fuitgul, Radiguet. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: augite.

-2 letters: tegua.

-3 letters: ague, etui, fate, feat, feta, fiat, gait, gate, geta, gift, tufa.

-4 letters: aft, age, ait, ate, eat, eau, eft, eta, fag, fat, fet, feu, fie, fig, fit, fug, gae, gat, get, gie, git, gut, tae, tag, tau, tea, teg, tie, tug, tui, uta.

-5 letters: ae, ag, ai, at, ef, et, fa.

+1 letter: fatigued, fatigues, figurate, fruitage, fumigate.

+2 letters: featuring, fruitages, fumigated, fumigates, fustigate.

+3 letters: defaulting, figurative, fugacities, fustigated, fustigates, grapefruit.

+4 letters: antifatigue, beautifying, centrifugal, cofeaturing, fecundating, frugalities, grapefruits, outfeasting, overfatigue, transfigure, unaffecting, unfaltering, unfastening.

+5 letters: centrifugals, effectuating, figuratively, guitarfishes, overfatigued, overfatigues, transfigured, transfigures, unflattering.