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say it: fuh-TEEG
fatigue is a noun and verb meaning "temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard physical or mental work". It carries 6 recorded senses.
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”
used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress
“metal 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”
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”
military
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for fatigue come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.