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Fatigue vs Forweary - What's the difference?

fatigue | forweary |

As verbs the difference between fatigue and forweary

is that fatigue is while forweary is (obsolete) to weary utterly; tire out.

As adjectives the difference between fatigue and forweary

is that fatigue is tired while forweary is (obsolete) excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.

fatigue

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A weariness caused by exertion; exhaustion.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at the Emirates, blaming fatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.}}
  • A menial task, especially in the military.
  • (engineering) A mechanism of material failure involving of crack growth caused by low-stress cyclic loading.
  • * 2013 , N. Dowling, Mechanical Behaviour of Materials , page 399
  • Mechanical failures due to fatigue have been the subject of engineering efforts for more than 150 years.

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * fatigues (military work clothing)

    Verb

    (fatigu)
  • to tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion
  • to lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted
  • (intransitive, engineering, of a material specimen) to undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
  • forweary

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) forwerien, equivalent to .

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To weary utterly; tire out.
  • (Spenser)
  • (obsolete) To become wearied.
  • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) forwery, equivalent to .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Excessively weary; exhausted with fatigue.