fatigue
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See also: fatigué
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)
- A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.
- (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
- (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
- 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399
- Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.
- 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- fatigues (military work clothing)
- diversity fatigue
- donor fatigue
- fatigueless
- fatigue duty
Translations[edit]
weariness
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menial task, especially in military
material failure due to cyclic loading
Verb[edit]
fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)
- (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
- (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
- 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1
- The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.
- 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1
- (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
- (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
- (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
- The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.
Related terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
to tire or make weary
cooking: to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it
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to lose strength or energy
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Further reading[edit]
- fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
fatigue f (plural fatigues)
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Further reading[edit]
- “fatigue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
fatigue
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
- third-person singular imperative of fatigar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
fatigue
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