fatigue
See also: fatigué
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatigare (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”)
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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) 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.
- 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399
SynonymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- fatigues (military work clothing)
- diversity fatigue
- donor fatigue
- fatigueless
TranslationsEdit
weariness
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menial task, especially in military
material failure due to cyclic loading
VerbEdit
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.
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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 readingEdit
- fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- fatigue in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
FrenchEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
fatigue f (plural fatigues)
Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “fatigue” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
fatigue
- first-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of fatigar
- third-person singular imperative of fatigar
SpanishEdit
VerbEdit
fatigue