fatigue
/fəˈtiːɡ/ verb C2- To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
- To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
- To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
- To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
- 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.
He/she/it fatigues · Past fatigued · Past participle fatigued · -ing form fatiguing
Verb forms
- Base form
- fatigue
- He/she/it
- fatigues
- Past
- fatigued
- Past participle
- fatigued
- -ing form
- fatiguing
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At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
There was only this blow wanting.” Then he said aloud, “My dear friend, your attack has, perhaps, fatigued you; had you not better repose awhile?
“Because there are many ciphers which I would read as easily as I do the apocrypha of the agony column: such crude devices amuse the intelligence without fatiguing it.
A LION, fatigued by the heat of a summer’s day, fell fast asleep in his den.
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