Word.ws English Dictionary

defatigating

defatigating is the present participle and gerund of defatigate.

Meaning of defatigate

Verb

defatigate (third-person singular simple present defatigates, present participle defatigating, simple past and past participle defatigated)

  1. (rare) To tire or make weary.
    • I must say there is something to be said, don't you agree darling, and I rather hope they'll internationalize the cosmic wireless and save us from some of this defatigating news.1947, Alan Patrick Herbert, Topsy Turvy, page 66

See all 2 meanings of defatigate

Questions about defatigating

What is defatigating the present participle and gerund of?
Defatigating is the present participle and gerund of defatigate.

Words near defatigating in the dictionary

  1. defat
  2. defatigable
  3. defatigate
  4. defatigated
  5. defatigates
  6. defatigating
  7. defatigation
  8. defats
  9. defatted
  10. defatting
  11. default

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: defatigating (page history and authors); defatigate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “defatigating.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/defatigating. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.