Definition of fatigue

"fatigue" in the noun sense

1. fatigue, weariness, tiredness

temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work

"he was hospitalized for extreme fatigue"

"growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in the execution of their athletic skills"

"weariness overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep"

2. fatigue

used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress

"metal fatigue"

3. fatigue

always used with a modifier) boredom resulting from overexposure to something

"he was suffering from museum fatigue"

"after watching TV with her husband she had a bad case of football fatigue"

"the American public is experiencing scandal fatigue"

"political fatigue"

4. fatigue duty, fatigue

labor of a nonmilitary kind done by soldiers (cleaning or digging or draining or so on

"the soldiers were put on fatigue to teach them a lesson"

"they were assigned to kitchen fatigues"

"fatigue" in the verb sense

1. tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade

lose interest or become bored with something or somebody

"I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

2. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

"We wore ourselves out on this hike"

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Quotations for fatigue

Fatigue is the best pillow. [ Franklin ]

The enthusiasm lessening the fatigue. [ Ovid ]

Habit gives endurance, and fatigue is the best nightcap. [ Kincaid ]

At fifteen, to dance is a pleasure; at twenty five, a pretext; at forty, a fatigue. [ A. Ricard ]

The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking. [ Cowper ]

Labour is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labour used only while it produces pleasure. [ Johnson ]

Great is the power of habit: teaching us as it does to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. [ Cicero ]

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years. [ George Eliot ]

One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of close attention; and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied, but to be read. [ Johnson ]

There is a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die. [ Miss M. E. Braddon ]

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. lie that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Pale, Pallid, or Wan? All these terms denote an absence of color, but vary in degree, pallid rising upon pale, and wan upon pallid. Paleness in the countenance may be temporary, but pallidness and wanness are caused by sickness, hunger, or fatigue, and are of longer duration. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Gentlemen, do you know what is the finest speech that I ever in my life heard or read? It is the address of Garibaldi to his Roman soldiers, when he told them: Soldiers, what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries; - those who love freedom and their country may follow me. That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in my life. [ Kossuth ]

fatigue in Scrabble®

The word fatigue is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters fatigue:

FATIGUE
(95 = 45 + 50)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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fatigue in Words With Friends™

The word fatigue is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 13

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters fatigue:

FATIGUE
(104 = 69 + 35)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (1 word)

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Words within the letters of fatigue

2 letter words in fatigue (8 words)

3 letter words in fatigue (15 words)

4 letter words in fatigue (8 words)

6 letter words in fatigue (1 word)

7 letter words in fatigue (1 word)

fatigue + 1 blank (5 words)

Words containing the sequence fatigue

Words that start with fatigue (3 words)

Words with fatigue in them (4 words)

Words that end with fatigue (2 words)

Word Growth involving fatigue

Shorter words in fatigue

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Longer words containing fatigue

fatigued overfatigued

fatigued unfatigued

fatigues overfatigues

overfatigue overfatigued

overfatigue overfatigues