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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fatigue \Fa*tigue"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Fatigued}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Fatiguing}, noun] [Cf. F. fatiguer. See {Fatigue}, noun] To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Syn: To jade; tire; weary; bore. See {Jade}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Fatigue \Fa*tigue"\, noun [F., fr. fatiguer to fatigue, L. fatigare; cf. L. affatim sufficiently.]
1. Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
2. The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. --Dryden.
3. The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
{Fatigue call} (Mil.), a summons, by bugle or drum, to perform fatigue duties.
{Fatigue dress}, the working dress of soldiers.
{Fatigue duty} (Mil.), labor exacted from soldiers aside from the use of arms. --Farrow.
{Fatigue party}, a party of soldiers on fatigue duty.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
fatigue
noun
1: 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" [syn: {weariness}, {tiredness}]
2: used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue"
3: (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"
4: 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" [syn: {fatigue duty}]
verb
1: get tired of something or somebody [syn: {tire}, {pall}, {weary}, {jade}]
2: exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire}, {wear upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out}, {outwear}, {wear down}, {fag out}, {fag}] [ant: {refresh}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
251 Moby Thesaurus words for "fatigue": abatement, abscess, acedia, adynamia, ague, anemia, ankylosis, annoy, anoxia, apathy, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atony, atrophy, attenuation, attrition, backache, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious, beat, blah feeling, bleeding, blennorhea, bloodlessness, blow, blunting, boredom, bother, break down, burn out, cachexia, cachexy, chill, chills, colic, collapse, constipation, convulsion, coughing, cowardice, crack up, cyanosis, damping, deadening, debilitate, debilitation, debility, deplete, devitalization, diarrhea, dilution, dirty work, disable, dizziness, do in, do up, donkeywork, drag on, drain, droop, drop, dropsy, drowsiness, drudgery, dulling, dullness, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, effemination, emaciation, employment, enervate, enervation, enfeeblement, ennui, etiolation, evisceration, exhaust, exhaustion, extenuation, fag, fag out, faint, fainting, faintness, feebleness, fever, fibrillation, flabbiness, flaccidity, flag, flux, frazzle, gasp, get tired, give out, glut, go on forever, grind, grow weary, growth, handiwork, handwork, harass, heaviness, hebetude, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, impotence, inanimation, inanition, indifference, indigestion, industry, inflammation, insomnia, irk, itching, jade, jadedness, jaundice, knock out, knock up, labor, labored breathing, lackadaisicalness, languidness, languishment, languor, languorousness, lassitude, lenitude, lentor, lethargy, lick, lick of work, lifelessness, listlessness, low blood pressure, lumbago, manual labor, marasmus, mitigation, moil, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, oscitancy, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, pain, pall, pant, paralysis, passivity, peter out, phlegm, play out, poop, poop out, prostrate, prostration, pruritus, puff, puff and blow, rash, rat race, reduction, relaxation, rheum, run down, run out, satedness, satiate, sclerosis, scut work, seizure, shock, sink, skin eruption, slackening, slavery, sleepiness, sloth, slothfulness, slowness, sluggishness, sneezing, softening, softness, somnolence, sore, spadework, spasm, strengthlessness, stroke, stroke of work, stupefaction, stupor, succumb, supineness, sweat, tabes, tachycardia, task, thinning, tire, tire out, tire to death, tiredness, tiresome work, toil, torpidity, torpidness, torpitude, torpor, travail, treadmill, tucker, tumor, upset stomach, use up, vertigo, vex, vomiting, wasting, weaken, weakening, weakliness, weakness, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weariness, weary, wheeze, wilt, wind, work, world-weariness
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