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Noun fatigue has 4 senses
- 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"
--1 is a kind of temporary state
--1 has particulars:
- fatigue - used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue"
--2 is a kind of failing, weakness
- 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"
--3 is a kind of boredom, ennui, tedium
- 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"
--4 is a kind of assignment, duty assignment
Verb fatigue has 2 senses
- tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade - get tired of something or somebody
--1 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
- tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue - exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
--2 is one way to indispose
Sample sentence:
Sam cannot fatigue Sue
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