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Fatigue   /fətˈig/   Listen
noun
Fatigue  n.  
1.
Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
2.
The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
3.
The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigue call (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.
Fatigue dress, the working dress of soldiers.
Fatigue duty (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms.
Fatigue party, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.


verb
Fatigue  v. t.  (past & past part. fatigued; pres. part. fatiguing)  To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Synonyms: To jade; tire; weary; bore. See Jade.





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"Fatigue" Quotes from Famous Books



... been toiling night and day like an inexhaustible giant, suggested that music might be called in to aid their flagging powers. It was well known that fatigued soldiers on a march are greatly re-invigorated by the band. Major Beak, soaking from head to foot with salt water, almost blind with fatigue and want of sleep, and with the perspiration dropping from the point of his enormous nose, plucked up heart to raise himself and assert that that was true. He further suggested that Colonel Blare might play to them on the cornet. But Colonel ...
— Post Haste • R.M. Ballantyne
... be it of postage stamps or birds' eggs, knows full well how securing one coveted specimen but increases eagerness for others; and so was it with me, that pleasant afternoon. Just one pretty arrow-point cured me of my laziness, banished every trace of fatigue, and filled me with the interest of eager search; and I dug and sifted and washed the sandy soil for yards along the brook-side, until I had gathered at least a score of curious relics of the long-departed red men, or rather of the games and ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, April 1878 - Scribner's Illustrated • Various
... ravine, and then, striking out on the open prairie, steered to the northward. Fortunately, the first day out I shot an antelope and got some raw meat, which kept me from starving. In two days and a half I reached the camp, nearly dead from fatigue and hunger, and was thoroughly glad to be at home in my tent once more, with a whole scalp on ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... though he did not belong to me. And now he is dead. You'll never know—I hope you may never know—what drudgery means as I have known it. I've written my poor little screeds when I was half-dead with fatigue; I've been out in cold and rain to get news; I've interviewed all sorts of people when I've hated them and hated the work. And if now I want to have my little fling, why not? Everybody effervesces some time. This is my moment—and you can't expect ...
— The Gay Cockade • Temple Bailey
... extreme portliness had caused her hours of laborious selection to fatigue her greatly. Her face was scarlet as she entered a popular restaurant to seek rest and refreshment. She trudged with all the celerity possible toward the only empty table, her face expressing ...
— In Apple-Blossom Time - A Fairy-Tale to Date • Clara Louise Burnham


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