fatigue
/fəˈtiːɡ/ noun C1- A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
- A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
- Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
Plural fatigues
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In the first place, I was four years making the tools I possess, and have been two years scraping and digging out earth, hard as granite itself; then what toil and fatigue has it not been to remove huge stones I should once have deemed impossible to loosen.
Bennet seemed incapable of fatigue while enumerating the advantages of the match.
“Let us visit them,” said the inspector with an air of fatigue.
When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.
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