Exhaustion vs. Fatigue — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Exhaustion and Fatigue
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Exhaustion
The act or an instance of exhausting.
Fatigue
Fatigue is a feeling of tiredness. It may be sudden or gradual in onset.
Exhaustion
The state of being exhausted; extreme fatigue
The runner collapsed from exhaustion.
Fatigue
Physical or mental weariness resulting from effort or activity.
Exhaustion
The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.
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Fatigue
Something, such as tiring effort or activity, that causes tiredness or weariness
The fatigue of a long hike.
Exhaustion
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
I ran in the marathon to exhaustion, then I collapsed and had to be carried away.
Fatigue
(Physiology) The decreased capacity or complete inability of an organism, organ, or part to function normally because of excessive stimulation or prolonged exertion.
Exhaustion
The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
Fatigue
The weakening or failure of a material, such as metal or wood, resulting from prolonged stress.
Exhaustion
The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
Fatigue
Manual or menial labor, such as barracks cleaning, assigned to soldiers.
Exhaustion
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
Fatigue
Fatigues Clothing worn by military personnel for labor or for field duty.
Exhaustion
The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.
Fatigue
To tire out; exhaust.
Exhaustion
The state of being exhausted or emptied; the state of being deprived of strength or spirits.
Fatigue
To create fatigue in (a metal or other material).
Exhaustion
An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive process was employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method of limits.
Fatigue
To be or become tired.
Exhaustion
Extreme fatigue
Fatigue
A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
Exhaustion
Serious weakening and loss of energy
Fatigue
(often in the plural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
Exhaustion
The act of exhausting something entirely
Fatigue
(engineering) Weakening and eventual failure of material, typically by cracking leading to complete separation, caused by repeated application of mechanical stress to the material.
Fatigue
(transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
Fatigue
To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
Fatigue
(intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
Fatigue
To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
Fatigue
To cause to undergo the process of fatigue.
The repeated pressurization cycles fatigued the airplane's metal skin until it eventually broke up in flight.
Fatigue
Weariness from bodily labor or mental exertion; lassitude or exhaustion of strength.
Fatigue
The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war.
Fatigue
The weakening of a metal when subjected to repeated vibrations or strains.
Fatigue
To weary with labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.
Fatigue
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
Fatigue
Used of materials (especially metals) in a weakened state caused by long stress;
Metal fatigue
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
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
Fatigue
Get tired of something or somebody
Fatigue
Exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain or stress;
We wore ourselves out on this hike
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