FATIGUING

Definition: FATIGUING

FATIGUING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Fatigue

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FATIGUING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Synonym: FATIGUING

Synonym: tedious. (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Fatigue	Fatiguing; Verb: tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Author	Date	Quotation
US Declaration of Independence	1776	He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	For fear of fatiguing or of annoying the convalescent, he got behind him to smile upon him.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Subsequently, 18% were found to have a preexisting medical condition that plausibly accounted for their chronic fatiguing illness (Reyes M, et al. Unpublished data). (references)
		In some individuals it may be beneficial to assess the impact of fatiguing illness on certain cognitive or reasoning skills, e.g., concentration, memory, and organization. (references)
		Any previously diagnosed medical condition whose resolution has not been documented beyond reasonable clinical doubt and whose continued activity may explain the chronic fatiguing illness. (references)
Political Economy	URUGUAY	Children under the age of 18 may not perform dangerous, fatiguing, or night work, apart from domestic employment. (references)
Worker Rights	Uruguay	Minors between the ages of 15 and 18 require government permission to work, and such permission is not granted for dangerous, fatiguing, or night work. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"FATIGUING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 60.00% of the time. "FATIGUING" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	60%	6	143,867
Adjective (general or positive)	30%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Language		Translations for "FATIGUING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		lodhës (exhausting, fabian, tiring, wearing), i mërzitshëm (annoying, boring, bothersome, corny, dead alive, depressing, dissatisfactory, dreary, dry, dull, fierce, pesky, plaguesome, pragmatical, slow, tedious, tiresome, weariful, wearisome, weary), i lodhët (harassing, irksome, tiresome, wearisome). (various references)

Arabic		‏متعب (annoying, arduous, bothersome, burdensome, disturbing, exhaustive, inconvenient, laborious, onerous, strenuous, tired, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, troublesome, trying, vexing, wearisome, weary), ‏مجهد (arduous, exhausting, laborious, onerous, overwrought, strenuous, tiring, toilsome, wearing), ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exacting, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		уморителен (exacting, exhausting, killing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, weary, wearying), изтощителен (depletive, depletory, exhausting, exhaustive, grinding, grueling, killing, wearing). (various references)

Chinese		疲劳 (Fatigue, Fatigued, fatigues). (various references)

Finnish		väsyttävä (exhausting, tiresome, tiring). (various references)

French		fatigant, épuisant. (various references)

German		ermüdend (back breaking, exhausting, fatigueing, irksome, strenuous, tedious, tediously, tireing, tiresome, tiresomely, tiring, wearing, wearisome, weary, wearying). (various references)

Greek		κοπιαστικόσ (laborious). (various references)

Hebrew		מלא�" (irksome, tedious, tiresome, wearisome), מעיף (tedious, tiresome, toilsome, trying). (various references)

Hungarian		fárasztó (against the collar, burdensome, difficult, exhausting, grinding, grueling, gruelling, irking, irksome, onerous, pain in the neck, stiff, sweaty, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, uphill, warm, weariful, wearing, wearisome). (various references)

Korean		지치게 함 (Wearying). (various references)

Manx		tooilleilagh (exacting, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, wearing, wearisome, wearying), deinagh (irksome, weary). (various references)

Pig Latin		atiguingfay

Romanian		greu (annoying, arduous, awkward, burden, burdensome, busy, clumsy, dangerously, difficult, difficulty, gravely, grievous, hard, hardly, heavily, heavy, inconvenient, labored, laborious, laboured, leaden, lot, massive, massy, near, onerous, oppressive, painful, parlous, precarious, punitive, reluctantly, scarcely, seriously, severe, solid, stiff, stodgy, stolid, strenuous, stuffy, ticklish, toilful, tough, troublesome, trying, uneasy, uphill, wearisome, weary, weight, weighty). (various references)

Russian		утомительный (exhausting, irksome, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, weariful, wearing, wearisome, weary, wearying). (various references)

Spanish		fatigoso (labored, laboured, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, wearisome), agotador (drainer, exhauster, exhausting, false bottom, foredrainer, grueling, gruelling, gruesome, hard, juice separator, killing, punishing, strenuous, taxing). (various references)

Swedish		tröttsam (irksome, tiresome, tiring, wearisome). (various references)

Turkish		zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exacting, exhausting, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), yorucu (back breaking, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, grueling, gruelling, irksome, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, languorous, painful, strenuous, tiresome, tiring, toilful, toilsome, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, with an effort). (various references)

Ukranian		стомливий (exhausting, irksome, laborious, languorous, tedious, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, trying, tucked up, weariful, wearing, weary). (various references)

Vietnamese		l� m mệt nhọc, l� m kiệt sức (down, exhausting). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "FATIGUING": fatiguingly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"FATIGUING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atoguin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "FATIGUING" (pronounced futē"ging)
4	-ē" g i ng	intriguing.
3	-g i ng	bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, clogging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, drugging, flagging, flogging, gigging, hogging, hugging, jitterbugging, jogging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slogging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-g-g-i-i-n-t-u"
	-2 letters: gaiting, gifting.
	-3 letters: fating, gating.
	-4 letters: aging, fagin, faint, fungi, gaunt, giant, unfit.
	-5 letters: agin, anti, aunt, fain, fang, faun, fiat, gain, gait, gang, gaun, gift, giga, gnat, guan, inia, inti, naif, tain, tang, ting, tufa, tuna, tung, unai, unit.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-g-g-i-i-n-t-u"
	+1 letter: fumigating.
	+2 letters: fatiguingly, fustigating.
	+4 letters: transfiguring.
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