1 [U] a feeling of being extremely tired, usually because of hard work or exercise:
physical and mental fatigue * Driver fatigue was to blame for the accident. * I was dropping with fatigue and could not keep my eyes open.
2 [U] (usually after another noun) a feeling of not wanting to do a particular activity any longer because you have done too much of it:
battle fatigue * compassion fatigue (= the inability to feel pity for other people's suffering any more) brought on by too many charity appeals
3 [U] weakness in metal or wood caused by repeated bending or stretching:
The wing of the plane showed signs of metal fatigue.
4 (fatigues) [pl.] loose clothes worn by soldiers
5 (fatigues) [pl.] (especially AmE) 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.
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for fatigue is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is fatigue a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, fatigue is tagged as noun.
Does fatigue appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — fatigue appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
