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fatigue Definition

fa·tigue (fə tēg)

noun

  1. physical or mental exhaustion; weariness
  2. the cause of this; hard work; toil
  3. any manual labor or menial duty, other than drill or instruction, assigned to soldiers
  4. sturdy work clothing worn by soldiers doing fatigue duty
  5. the tendency of a metal or other material to crack and fail under repeated applications of stress
  6. Physiol. the decreased ability to function or inability to respond of an organism or one of its parts due to prolonged exertion or repeated stimulation

Etymology: Fr < fatiguer < L fatigare, to weary < *fatis, exhaustion < base of fames, hunger (see famine) + agere, to drive, make (see act)

transitive verb, intransitive verb -·tigued, -·tigu·ing

  1. to make or become tired or exhausted; weary
  2. to subject to or undergo fatigue

fatigue Synonyms

fatigue

n.

weariness, lassitude, exhaustion, tiredness, languor, enervation, debilitation, weakness, feebleness, faintness, anoxia, combat fatigue, battle fatigue, nervous exhaustion, prostration, dullness, heaviness, listlessness, lethargy, sluggishness, ennui, burnout; see also sleepiness.

Antonyms vigor*, briskness, energy.

fatigue Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • generalize: Generalized systemic fatigue is reported by most patients with PPS ( Halstead et al.
  • fret: If the contact involves vibrational or impact motions then there will be a risk of fretting, fretting corrosion or even fretting fatigue.
  • induce: The interior noise level is another major factor toward inducing fatigue.

Preposition: in

sclerosis: Efficacy and safety of modafinil ( Provigil ) for the treatment of fatigue in multiple sclerosis: a two center phase 2 study.

Adjective modifier

  • chronic: The Wellcome Trust has recently funded a new phase III trial for patients with chronic fatigue.
  • muscular: We believe that transient weakness is actually muscular fatigue.
  • debilitating: Severe and debilitating fatigue, painful muscles and joints, disordered sleep, gastric disturbances, poor memory and concentration are commonplace.
  • cancer-related: The home-based exercise group reduced levels of cancer-related fatigue and improved aerobic capacity compared with patients in standard care.
  • exercise-induced: Goals in aerobic exercise are: Educate the patient to avoid potentially harmful exercise-induced fatigue.
  • post-viral: Stress and post-viral fatigue was diagnosed and I was unable to work for five months.

Modifies a noun

  • syndrome: He faked the symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome to evade active service.
  • crack: An experimental study investigated the fatigue crack path on the free surface.
  • initiation: The use of the technique in the study of fatigue crack initiation and growth in ductile cast irons will also be given.
  • propagation: The effects of both the layered structure and service environment on fatigue crack propagation behavior are assessed.
  • severity: Are age, illness duration, fatigue severity or psychiatric disorder predictive of long term outcome?
  • loading: This geometry is also suitable for compression fatigue loading, providing hysteretic heating is avoided.

Noun used with modifier

  • post-polio: Several other agents have been studied in an attempt to treat post-polio fatigue.
  • corrosion: Corrosion fatigue is the development and propagation of cracks in a material that is subjected to alternating or fluctuating cycles of load.
  • compassion: In Britain today there is no compassion fatigue: in Britain today there is a goodwill mountain waiting to be tapped.
  • muscle: Repeat to muscle fatigue ( in the range of 12 to 20 reps ).

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