fatigue

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See also: fatigué

English

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Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French fatigue, from fatiguer, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin fatigare (to weary, tire, vex, harass)

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /fəˈtiːɡ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -iːɡ

Noun

fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)

  1. 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.
  2. (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
  3. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on 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.

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Verb

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  1. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  2. (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.
  3. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.

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French

Pronunciation

Noun

fatigue f (plural fatigues)

  1. fatigue, weariness

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Portuguese

Verb

fatigue

  1. first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
  2. third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
  3. third-person singular imperative of fatigar

Spanish

Verb

fatigue

  1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of fatigar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of fatigar.