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Exhaustion vs. Fatigue — What's the Difference?

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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