fatigue

fatigue

See also: fatigué

English

Etymology

From French fatigue, from fatiguer, from Latin fatīgāre (“to weary, tire, vex, harass”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fəˈtiːɡ/

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• Rhymes: -iːɡ

Noun

fatigue (countable and uncountable, plural fatigues)

1. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 181:

     My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from his fatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.

   • 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian‎:

     Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.

2. (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 21345056, page 112:

     Moreover, the habits of business are the most enduring of any; and Lord Norbourne's most positive enjoyment was in what are called the fatigues of office.

3. (engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
   • 2013, N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, page 399

     Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

Synonyms

• Thesaurus:fatigue

Derived terms

• alarm fatigue
• battle fatigue
• chronic fatigue syndrome
• combat fatigue
• compassion fatigue
• decision fatigue
• diversity fatigue
• donor fatigue
• driver fatigue
• ear fatigue
• fatigue duty
• fatigueless
• fatigue party
• fatigues (military work clothing)
• flavor fatigue
• information fatigue
• information fatigue syndrome
• listener fatigue
• listening fatigue
• menu fatigue
• negro fatigue
• redemption fatigue

 

Translations

weariness

Albanian: lodhje (sq) f Arabic: إِرْهَاق‎ m (ʾirhāq), تَعَب‎ m (taʿab) Armenian: հոգնածություն (hy) (hognacutʿyun), ուժասպառություն (hy) (užaspaṙutʿyun) Azerbaijani: yorğunluq Belarusian: сто́ма f (stóma), сто́мленасць (be) f (stómljenascʹ), змо́ранасць f (zmóranascʹ) Bulgarian: умо́ра (bg) f (umóra), изтоще́ние (bg) n (iztošténie) Catalan: fatiga (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 疲勞／疲劳 (zh) (píláo), 倦怠 (zh) (juàndài), 乏力 (fálì), 勞累／劳累 (zh) (láolèi) Czech: únava (cs) f Dalmatian: fataica f Danish: træthed (da) c, udmatning c Dutch: vermoeidheid (nl) f Esperanto: laceco Estonian: väsimus Finnish: väsymys (fi), uupumus (fi), väsyminen (fi), uupuminen (fi) French: fatigue (fr) f, épuisement (fr) m Galician: fatiga f Georgian: დაღლილობა (daɣliloba) German: Müdigkeit (de) f, Ermüdung (de) f, Schlappheit f, Überdruss (de) m, Erschöpfung (de) f Greek: κόπος (el) m (kópos), κούραση (el) f (koúrasi), καταπόνηση (el) f (katapónisi) Hindi: थकान (hi) f (thakān) Hungarian: fáradtság (hu), kimerültség (hu) Icelandic: þreyta (is) f Indonesian: kelelahan (id) Irish: tuirse (ga) f Istriot: fadeîga f Italian: stanchezza (it) f, stanchezza (it), affaticamento (it) Japanese: 疲労 (ja) (ひろう, hirō), 疲れ (つかれ, tsukare) Kazakh: шаршау (şarşau), шаршағандық (şarşağandyq), болдырғандық (boldyrğandyq) Korean: 피곤(疲困) (ko) (pigon), 피로(疲勞) (ko) (piro) Kyrgyz: чарчоо (ky) (çarçoo), чарчагандык (çarçagandık) Latin: fatīgātiō f Latvian: nogurums m Lithuanian: nuovargis m Macedonian: умор m (umor), замор m (zamor) Malay: keletihan Maori: kurutai, mākinokino Miyako: ブガリ (bugari) Mongolian: Cyrillic: ядаргаа (mn) (jadargaa) Nahuatl: ciammiquiliztli Norwegian: Bokmål: tretthet m or f, utmattelse m Ottoman Turkish: یورغونلق‎ (yorgunluk), كلال‎ (kelal) Persian: خستگی‎ (fa) (xastegi) Polish: zmęczenie (pl) n Portuguese: fadiga (pt) f Romanian: extenuare (ro) f, oboseală (ro) f Russian: уста́лость (ru) f (ustálostʹ), утомле́ние (ru) n (utomlénije) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у́мор m Roman: úmor (sh) m Slovak: únava f Slovene: utrujenost f Spanish: fatiga (es) f Swedish: trötthet (sv) c, utmattning (sv) c Tagalog: pagod Tajik: хастагӣ (xastagī) Thai: ความล้า (th) (kwaam-láa) Turkish: yorgunluk (tr), bitkinlik (tr) Turkmen: ýadawlyk Ukrainian: уто́ма f (utóma), уто́мленість f (utómlenistʹ), сто́мленість f (stómlenistʹ), змо́реність f (zmórenistʹ) Urdu: تکان‎ f (takān) Uzbek: charchaganlik (uz), horganlik Vietnamese: mệt mỏi (vi) (疲痗) Venetian: fadiga f

menial task, especially in military

Bulgarian: наряд (bg) m (narjad) Finnish: nakki (fi) (slang) French: corvée (fr) f Greek: αγγαρεία (el) f (angareía) Irish: gíotáil f Italian: corvé m Romanian: corvadă (ro) f Russian: наря́д (ru) m (narjád)

material failure due to cyclic loading

Bulgarian: умора (bg) f (umora) Chinese: Mandarin: 疲勞／疲劳 (zh) (píláo) Estonian: väsimus Finnish: väsymisvaurio, väsymys (fi) German: Ermüdung (de) f Greek: φθορά (el) f (fthorá) Italian: usura (it), fatica (it), logorio (it) Polish: zmęczenie (pl) n Russian: уста́лость (ru) f (ustálostʹ) Swedish: förslitning (sv) c, slitage (sv) n, utnötning c, utmattning (sv) (e.g. effect on steel) Tagalog: pagal

Verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. (transitive, cooking) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
   • 1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death, chapter 1

     The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.

3. (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. (transitive, engineering) To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.

   The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.

Related terms

• fatigable
• indefatigable

Translations

to tire or make weary

Armenian: հոգնեցնել (hy) (hognecʿnel) Bengali: জ্বালাতন করা (bn) (jẇalatônô kôra) Bulgarian: изтощавам (bg) (iztoštavam), уморявам (bg) (umorjavam), тормозя (bg) (tormozja) Catalan: fatigar (ca) Dutch: afmatten (nl), vermoeien (nl) Finnish: rasittaa (fi), uuvuttaa (fi), väsyttää (fi) French: fatiguer (fr) German: ermüden (de), zermürben (de) Greek: καταπονώ (el) (kataponó), κουράζω (el) (kourázo) Irish: tuirsigh Italian: indebolire (it), stancare (it) Latin: fatīgāre Maori: whakahōhā Persian: ستوهیدن‎ (fa) (setuhidan) Portuguese: fatigar (pt), assediar (pt) Romanian: extenua (ro) Russian: утомля́ть (ru) (utomljátʹ), изнуря́ть (ru) (iznurjátʹ) Scottish Gaelic: sàraich Spanish: fatigar (es), acosar (es) Tagalog: mapagod Walloon: hoder (wa), nåjhi (wa), scrandi (wa)

cooking: to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it

Finnish: nuuduttaa

to lose strength or energy

Arabic: تَعِبَ‎ (taʿiba) Bulgarian: уморявам се (umorjavam se) Chinese: Mandarin: 疲勞／疲劳 (zh), 疲勞／疲劳 (zh) (píláo) Finnish: väsyä (fi), uupua (fi) Greek: εξαντλούμαι (el) (exantloúmai), κουράζομαι (el) (kourázomai) Japanese: 疲れる (ja) (つかれる, tsukareru) Portuguese: fatigar (pt) Russian: (perfective) уста́ть (ru) (ustátʹ), (imperfective) устава́ть (ru) (ustavátʹ) Tagalog: mapagod

engineering: to undergo the process of fatigue

Finnish: väsyä (fi)

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French: (please verify) fatiguer (fr) Ido: (please verify) fatigegar (io) Serbo-Croatian: (please verify) slabost (sh) (1), (please verify) nesvjestica (sh) (2)

Further reading

• fatigue in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• fatigue in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fa.tiɡ/

• (file)

Noun

fatigue f (plural fatigues)

1. fatigue, weariness

Derived terms

• tomber de fatigue

Related terms

• fatigué
• fatiguer

Further reading

• “fatigue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Portuguese

Verb

fatigue

1. inflection of fatigar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

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Spanish

Verb

fatigue

1. inflection of fatigar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative