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Synonyms for fatiguing

Grammar : Adj
Spell : fuh-teeg
Phonetic Transcription : fəˈtig

Définition of fatiguing

Origin :
  • 1660s, "that which causes weariness," from French fatigue "weariness," from fatiguer "to tire," from Latin fatigare, originally "to cause to break down," later, "to weary, fatigue, tire out," from pre-Latin adj. *fati-agos "driving to the point of breakdown," from Old Latin *fatis (of unknown origin, related to adv. affatim "sufficiently" and to fatisci "crack, split") + root of agere "to drive" (see act (n.)). Meaning "weariness from exertion" is from 1719.
  • adj tiring
Example sentences :
  • The day was excessively hot again, and walking was most fatiguing.
  • Extract from : « Explorations in Australia » by John Forrest
  • This was our most fatiguing day, and we wanted our last encampment to be the best.
  • Extract from : « It Happened in Egypt » by C. N. Williamson
  • In the present delicate state of their health this would be too fatiguing.
  • Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
  • His next whim was to be a locksmith; but this calling he found too fatiguing.
  • Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola
  • Help yourself, and remember you 'll have a fatiguing day to-morrow!
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • For this reason alone the reading of that work is a fatiguing process.
  • Extract from : « Notes on Life and Letters » by Joseph Conrad
  • But when they are not yours, when you have really no right to them, it is not fatiguing to say so.
  • Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
  • Our day had been very long and fatiguing—the cattle exhausted.
  • Extract from : « Byeways in Palestine » by James Finn
  • It was fatiguing and very dangerous work, but he succeeded at length.
  • Extract from : « The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • But Sir Gervaise had no intention of fatiguing his people unnecessarily.
  • Extract from : « The Two Admirals » by J. Fenimore Cooper

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