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Noun fatigue has 4 senses
  1. fatigue, weariness, tiredness - 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"
    --1 is a kind of military uniform; temporary state; military uniform; temporary state
    --1 has particulars:
     eyestrain, asthenopia; jet lag; exhaustion; grogginess; loginess, logginess
    Derived form: verb fatigue2
  2. fatigue - used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress; "metal fatigue"
    --2 is a kind of     failing, weakness; failing, weakness
  3. 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"
    --3 is a kind of     boredom, ennui, tedium; boredom, ennui, tedium
    Derived form: verb fatigue1
  4. fatigue duty, 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"
    --4 is a kind of assignment, duty assignment; assignment, duty assignment
,Verb fatigue has 2 senses
  1. tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade - get tired of something or somebody
    --1 is one way to devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate
    Derived form: noun fatigue3
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s
  2. tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue - exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"
    --2 is one way to indispose
    Derived form: noun fatigue1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam cannot fatigue Sue
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