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fatigues | |
1. n. plural of fatigue |  |
2. n. (military) Menial duties, especially as punishment. |  |
3. n. (US) Military clothing worn when doing menial tasks. |  |
fatigue | |
1. n. A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion. |  |
2. n. (often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military. |  |
3. n. (engineering) Material failure, such as cracking or separation, caused by stress on the material. |  |
4. v. to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion |  |
5. v. (transitive, culinary) to wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it |  |
6. v. (intransitive) to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted |  |
7. v. (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue. |  |