fatiguing

Verb

fatigue (third-person singular simple present fatigues, present participle fatiguing, simple past and past participle fatigued)

1. (transitive) To tire or make weary by physical or mental exertion.
2. (transitive) To wilt a salad by dressing or tossing it.
   • The handsome, silver-haired proprietor was absorbed in fatiguing a salad for a family party.1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, chapter 1, in Unnatural Death
3. (intransitive) To lose so much strength or energy that one becomes tired, weary, feeble or exhausted.
4. (intransitive) To undergo the process of fatigue; to fail as a result of fatigue.
5. (transitive) 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.

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