fatigue
1. temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work (Freq. 4)
- 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
• Syn:
weariness, tiredness
• Derivationally related forms:
tired (for: tiredness), weary (for: weariness)
• Hypernyms:
temporary state
• Hyponyms:
eyestrain, asthenopia, jet lag, exhaustion, grogginess,
loginess, logginess
2. used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
- metal fatigue
• Hypernyms:
failing, weakness
3. (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
• Hypernyms:
boredom, ennui, tedium
4. 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
• Syn:
fatigue duty
• Topics:
military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
• Hypernyms:
assignment, duty assignment
1. lose interest or become bored with something or somebody
- I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food
• Syn:
tire, pall, weary, jade
• Derivationally related forms:
jade (for: jade)
• Hypernyms:
devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
• Hyponyms:
poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out,
retire, withdraw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
- We wore ourselves out on this hike
• Syn:
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary,
jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag
• Ant:
refresh (for: tire)
• Derivationally related forms:
jade (for: jade), wear (for: wear)
• Hypernyms:
indispose
• Hyponyms:
exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out,
overtire, overweary, overfatigue
• Cause:
tire, pall, weary, jade
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
- Sam cannot fatigue Sue
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