Fatigue meaning

Noun: fatigue

Pronunciation: (fu’teeg)

Fatigue meaning:

• Temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work. Synonyms: weariness, tiredness, enervate
• Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
• boredom resulting from overexposure to something
• (military) labor of a non-military kind done by soldiers (cleaning, digging, draining or so on)

Verb: fatigue

Fatigue meaning:

• Lose interest or become bored with something or somebody. Synonyms: tire, pall, weary, jade
• Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress. Synonyms: fag out, debilitate

Quotations: Katharine Hepburn – I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.

Rhonda Jefferson – In games one and two, we played defense. After that, we started off losing all of our games. It seemed that we were playing not to lose instead of trying to win. We started to fatigue in the last few games.

Tom Ellis – He’s not a vegetable, but he can only go for a couple of hours and he has extreme fatigue where he has to lie down and rest. This is higher-profile because it happened to be a CEO making $800,000 a year. The fact of the matter is these injuries are occurring every single day.

James Fixx – The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one’s life.

Dr David Martin – There’s not a cure available, so patients are often left somewhat frustrated by continuing pain and fatigue. Acupuncture is one of the few things shown to be effective for these symptoms. It may be particularly attractive to patients who are unable to take medications because of intolerable side effects.

Sample sentences:

1. A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
2. Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
3. The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
4. Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
5. I really couldn’t tell that there was much fatigue. I can’t speak for the other guys, but I was rested. We just didn’t do it today.
6. This was a franchise that already had some viewer fatigue. This opening doesn’t do much to revive it.
7. Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
8. When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
9. This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to cling to what is close to him, to what he knows, to what he can do.
10. The Russian people are suffering from economic fatigue and from disillusionment with the Allies! The world thinks the Russian Revolution is at an end. Do not be mistaken. The Russian Revolution is just beginning.