fatigue

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /fəˈtiːɡ/

Noun

fatigue

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
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.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:fatigue

Translations

• French: fatigue, épuisement
• German: Müdigkeit, Ermüdung, Schlappheit, Überdruss, Erschöpfung
• Italian: stanchezza, fatica, stanchezza, affaticamento
• Portuguese: fadiga
• Russian: уста́лость
• Spanish: fatiga

Translations

• French: corvée
• Italian: corvé
• Russian: наря́д

Translations

• German: Ermüdung
• Italian: usura, fatica, logorio
• Russian: уста́лость

Verb

fatigue (fatigues, present participle fatiguing; past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
2. (transitive, culinary) 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.

Related terms

• fatigable
• indefatigable

Translations

• German: ermüden
• Portuguese: fatigar
• Russian: утомля́ть
• Spanish: fatigar

Translations

• Portuguese: fatigar
• Russian: (perfective) уста́ть

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