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FATIGUES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Military uniform worn by military personnel when doing menial labor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("fatigues" is a kind of...):
military uniform (prescribed identifying uniform for soldiers)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb fatigue
Context examples:
Promising to be with them the whole of the following morning, therefore, she closed the fatigues of the present by a toilsome walk to Camden Place, there to spend the evening chiefly in listening to the busy arrangements of Elizabeth and Mrs Clay for the morrow's party, the frequent enumeration of the persons invited, and the continually improving detail of all the embellishments which were to make it the most completely elegant of its kind in Bath, while harassing herself with the never-ending question, of whether Captain Wentworth would come or not?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
I must move, said she; resting fatigues me.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mrs. Jennings, however, with a kindness of heart which made Elinor really love her, declared her resolution of not stirring from Cleveland as long as Marianne remained ill, and of endeavouring, by her own attentive care, to supply to her the place of the mother she had taken her from; and Elinor found her on every occasion a most willing and active helpmate, desirous to share in all her fatigues, and often by her better experience in nursing, of material use.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He thought much of the evils of the journey for her, and not a little of the fatigues of his own horses and coachman who were to bring some of the party the last half of the way; but his alarms were needless; the sixteen miles being happily accomplished, and Mr. and Mrs. John Knightley, their five children, and a competent number of nursery-maids, all reaching Hartfield in safety.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Every sort of exercise fatigues her so soon, Miss Crawford, except riding.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Then you have had fatigues within doors, which are worse.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
No part of it fatigues me but getting off this horse, I assure you, said she, as she sprang down with his help; I am very strong.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
They entered Oxford, but she could take only a hasty glimpse of Edmund's college as they passed along, and made no stop anywhere till they reached Newbury, where a comfortable meal, uniting dinner and supper, wound up the enjoyments and fatigues of the day.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In they both came, and Mrs. Price having kindly kissed her daughter again, and commented a little on her growth, began with very natural solicitude to feel for their fatigues and wants as travellers.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
