fatigue
noun/fəˈtiːɡ/
/fəˈtiːɡ/
- [uncountable] a feeling of being extremely tired, usually because of hard work or exercise synonym exhaustion, tiredness
- physical and mental fatigue
- Driver fatigue was to blame for the accident.
- I was dropping with fatigue and could not keep my eyes open.
Extra ExamplesTopics Health problemsc1, Feelingsc1- He was crying from cold and fatigue.
- She had to stop work when fatigue set in.
- The man was shivering with fatigue.
- The right vitamins help you combat fatigue.
- Tom began to feel fatigue and weakness once more.
- Correcting your posture prevents muscle fatigue and injury.
- conditions such as chronic fatigue, insomnia and depression
- simple lifestyle strategies to prevent fatigue
- swimmers who are in a state of extreme fatigue
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- extreme
- severe
- growing
- …
- experience
- feel
- suffer from
- …
- set in
- overcome somebody
- from fatigue
- with fatigue
- a feeling of fatigue
- signs of fatigue
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- [uncountable] (usually after another noun) a feeling of not wanting to do a particular activity any longer because you have done too much of it
- Launching too many charity appeals risks bringing on compassion fatigue (= a loss of the ability to feel pity for other people’s suffering).
- The city has lived with masks and restrictions for over a year and people are experiencing pandemic fatigue.
- [uncountable] weakness in metal or wood caused by repeated bending or stretching
- The wing of the plane showed signs of metal fatigue.
- fatigues[plural] loose clothes worn by soldiers
- soldiers in combat fatigues
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- army
- battle
- combat
- …
- in fatigue
- fatigues[plural] (especially North American English) duties, such as cleaning and cooking, that soldiers have to do, especially as a punishment
- We were all put on cookhouse fatigues for a week.
Word Originmid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘task that causes weariness’): from French fatigue (noun), fatiguer (verb), from Latin fatigare ‘tire out’, from ad fatim, affatim ‘to satiety or surfeit’.
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