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# fatigue

«fatigue» in Mova's school dictionary: **great tiredness of the body or mind, after hard work…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fatigue — usually uncountable; fatigues — plural, special sense); verb (fatigue, fatigues, fatigued, fatiguing — formal)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Fatigue is great tiredness of the body or mind, after hard work, illness or lack of sleep. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#m1)

2) Metal fatigue is weakness in metal caused by being bent or shaken many times, which can make it crack. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#m2)

3) Fatigues (plural) are loose army clothes for work or battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#m3)

4) (verb, formal) To fatigue someone is to make them very tired. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In health and PE lessons it explains why rest and sleep matter; in safety, driver fatigue causes accidents. In science and engineering, metal fatigue is why parts are checked and replaced. Phrases: suffer from fatigue, battle fatigue, metal fatigue, compassion fatigue.

### examples

- After the long hike, we were overcome with fatigue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x1)
- Fatigue can make it hard to concentrate in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x2)
- Drivers should stop and rest to avoid fatigue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x3)
- The bridge was closed because of metal fatigue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x4)
- The soldiers wore green fatigues. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x5)
- The illness left her with fatigue for weeks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x6)
- The heat fatigued the runners. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x7)
- Trembling with fatigue he sat himself on a rock and broke a piece off his cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/#x8)

### note

Say: fa-TEEG. Spelling ends in «-gue». Usually uncountable: «fatigue», not «a fatigue». More formal than «tiredness». Fatigues (army clothes) is always plural.

### In the corpora

- ["Battle fatigue" is an old name for the mental injury soldiers get from combat, now called trauma.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/22/)
- [Too much news can cause news fatigue; some families make news-free times, like dinner.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/14-dad-shouting-at-the-tv-big-feelings-about-politics/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fatigue» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fatigue/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.