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#675. Essay. -- N. essay, trial, endeavor, attempt; aim, struggle,
venture, adventure, speculation, coup d'essai, debut; probation &c.
(experiment) 463.
V. try, essay; experiment &c. 463; endeavor, strive; tempt, attempt,
make an attempt; venture, adventure, speculate, take one's chance, tempt
fortune; try one's fortune, try one's luck, try one's hand; use one's
endeavor; feel one's way, grope one's way, pick one's way.
try hard, push, make a bold push, use one's best endeavor; do one's
best &c. (exertion) 686.
Adj. essaying &c. v.; experimental &c. 463; tentative, empirical,
probationary.
Adv. experimentally &c. Adj.; on trial, at a venture; by rule of
thumb. if one may be so bold.
Phr. aut non tentaris aut perfice [Ovid]; chi non s'arrischia non
guadagna.

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#676. Undertaking. -- N. undertaking; compact &c. 769; adventure,
venture; engagement &c. (promise) 768; enterprise, emprise; pilgrimage;
matter in hand &c. (business ) 625; move; first move &c. (beginning) 66.
V. undertake; engage in, embark in; launch into, plunge into;
volunteer; apprentice oneself to; engage &c. (promise) 768; contract &c.
769; take upon oneself, take upon one's shoulders; devote oneself to &c.
(determination) 604.
take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to,
set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set
forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put
one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin &c.
66; broach, institute &c. one's originate) 153; put one's hand to the plow,
lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.
have in hand &c. (business) 625; have many irons in the fire &c.
(activity) 682.
Adj. undertaking &c. v.; on the anvil &c. 625.
Int. here goes!

#677. Use. -- N. use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation;
application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency &c.
(physical) 170; usufruct; usefulness &c. 644; benefit; recourse, resort,
avail.
[Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear.
[Way of using] usage.
V. use,.make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in
operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work.
ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise,
practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur
to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's
hands on, try.
render useful &c. 644; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to
use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into
requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the
service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit,
dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.
fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of.
use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to
task.
Adj. in use; used &c. v.; well-worn, well-trodden.
useful &c. 644; subservient &c. (instrumental) 631.


#678. Disuse. -- N. forbearance, abstinence; disuse; relinquishment
&c. 782; desuetude &c. (want of habit) 614; disusage.
V. not use; do without, dispense with, let alone, not touch, forbear,
abstain, spare, waive, neglect; keep back, reserve. lay up, lay by, lay on
the shelf, lay up in ordinary; lay up in a napkin; shelve; set aside, put
aside, lay aside; disuse, leave off, have done with; supersede; discard &c.
(eject) 297; dismiss, give warning.
throw aside &c. (relinquish) 782; make away with &c. (destroy) 162;
cast overboard , heave overboard , throw overboard; cast to the dogs, cast
to the winds; dismantle &c. (Render useless) 645.
lie unemployed , remain unemployed &c. Adj.
Adj. not used &c. v.; unemployed, unapplied, undisposed of, unspent,
unexercised, untouched, untrodden, unessayed, ungathered, unculled;
uncalled for, not required.
disused &c. v.; done with.

#679. Misuse. -- N. misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication,
misappropriation.
abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste &c. 638.
V. misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate.
desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste &c. 638; overtask,
overtax, overwork: squander &c. 818.
cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch
at a straw.
Adj. misused &c. v.
Phr. ludere cum sacris.

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Section Ill. VOLUNTARY ACTION

1. Simple voluntary Action


#680. Action. -- N. action, performance; doing, &c. v.; perpetration;
exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor &c.
(exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure &c. (conduct) 692; handicraft;
business &c. 625; agency &c. (power at work) 170.
deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings,
dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke,
blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force &c. (display) 882;
feat, exploit; achievement &c. (completion) 729; handiwork, workmanship;
manufacture; stroke of policy &c. (plan) 626.
actor &c. (doer) 690.
V. do, perform, execute; achieve &c. (complete) 729; transact, enact;
commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice,
play.
employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand &c. (business)
625; labor &c. 686; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course &c.
(conduct) 692.
act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger,
stretch forth one's hand; take in hand &c. (undertake) 676; put oneself in
motion; put in practice; carry into execution &c. (complete) 729; act upon.
be an actor &c. 690; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in,
perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the
pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand,
lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with &c. (meddle)
682.
be in action; come into operation &c. (power at work) 170.
Adj. doing &c. v.; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in
operation &c. 170.
Adv. in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in
flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.
Phr. "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than
words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n"
[Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac;
fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better
than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but
action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce nest
pas respirer c'est agir; "we live in deeds not years" [Bailey].



#681. Inaction. -- N. inaction, passiveness, abstinence from action;
noninterference; Fabian policy, conservative policy; neglect &c. 460.
inactivity &c. 683; rest &c. (repose) 687; quiescence &c. 265; want of
occupation, inoccupation; idle hours, time hanging on one's hands, dolce
far niente; sinecure; soft snap, soft thing.
V. not do, not act, not attempt; be inactive &c. 683; abstain from
doing, do nothing, hold, spare; not stir, not move, not lift a finger, not
lift a foot, not lift a peg; fold one's arms, fold one's hands; leave
alone, let alone; let be, let pass, let things take their course, let it
have its way, let well alone; quieta non movere; stare super antiquas vias;
rest and be thankful, live and let live; lie rest upon one's oars; laisser
aller, faire; stand aloof; refrain &c. (avoid) 623 keep oneself from doing;
remit one's efforts, relax one's efforts; desist &c. (relinquish) 624; stop
&c. (cease) 142; pause &c. (be quiet) 265.
wait, lie in wait, bide one's time, take time, tide it over.
cool one's heels, kick one's heels; while away the time, while away
tedious hours; pass the time, fill up the time, beguile the time; talk
against time; waste time &c. (inactive) 683.
lie by, lie on the shelf, lie in ordinary, lie idle, lie to, lie
fallow; keep quiet, slug; have nothing to do, whistle for want of thought.
undo, do away with; take down, take to pieces; destroy &c. 162.
Adj. not doing &c. v.; not done &c. v.; undone; passive; unoccupied,
unemployed; out of employ, out of work; fallow; desaeuvre.
Adv. re infecta, at a stand, les bras croisis, with folded arms; with
the hands in the pockets, with the hands behind one's back; pour passer le
temps.
Int. so let it be! stop! &c. 142; hands off!
Phr. cunctando restituit rem.


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#682. Activity. -- N. activity; briskness, liveliness &c. adj.;
animation, life, vivacity, spirit, dash, energy; snap, vim.
nimbleness, agility; smartness, quickness &c. adj.; velocity, &c. 274;
alacrity, promptitude; despatch, dispatch; expedition; haste &c. 684;
punctuality &c. (early) 132.
eagerness, zeal, ardor, perfervidum aingenium, empressement,
earnestness, intentness; abandon; vigor &c. (physical energy) 171; devotion
&c. (resolution) 604; exertion &c. 686.
industry, assiduity; assiduousness &c. adj.; sedulity; laboriousness;
drudgery &c. (labor) 686; painstaking, diligence; perseverance &c. 604a;
indefatigation|; habits of business.
vigilance &c. 459; wakefulness; sleeplessness, restlessness; insomnia;
pervigilium, insomnium; racketing.
movement, bustle, stir, fuss, ado, bother, pottering, fidget,
fidgetiness; flurry &c. (haste) 684.
officiousness; dabbling, meddling; interference, interposition,
intermeddling; tampering with, intrigue.
press of business, no sinecure, plenty to do, many irons in the fire,
great doings, busy hum of men, battle of life, thick of the action.
housewife, busy bee; new brooms; sharp fellow, sharp blade; devotee,
enthusiast, zealot, meddler, intermeddler, intriguer, busybody, pickthank;
hummer, hustler, live man [U.S.], rustler * [U. S.].
V. be active &c. adj.; busy oneself in; stir, stir about, stir one's
stumps; bestir oneself, rouse oneself; speed, hasten, peg away, lay about
one, bustle, fuss; raise up, kick up a dust; push; make a push, make a
fuss, make a stir; go ahead, push forward; fight one's way, elbow one's
way; make progress &c. 282; toll &c. (labor) 686; plod, persist &c.
(persevere) 604a; keep up the ball, keep the pot boiling.
look sharp; have all one's eyes about one &c. (vigilance) 459; rise,
arouse oneself, hustle, get up early, be about, keep moving, steal a march,
kill two birds with one stone; seize the opportunity &c. 134 lose no time,
not lose a moment, make the most of one's time, not suffer the grass to
grow under one's feet, improve the shining hour, make short work of; dash
off; make haste &c. 684; do one's best take pains &c. (exert oneself)
686; do wonders, work wonders.
have many irons in the fire, have one's hands full, have much on one's
hands; have other things to do, have other fish to fry; be busy; not have a
moment to spare, not have a moment that one can call one's own.
have one's fling, run the round of; go all lengths, stick at nothing,
run riot.
outdo; overdo, overact, overlay, overshoot the mark; make a toil of a
pleasure.
have a hand in &c. (act in) 680; take an active part, put in one's
oar, have a finger in the pie, mix oneself up with, trouble, one's head
about, intrigue; agitate.
tamper with, meddle, moil; intermeddle, interfere, interpose; obtrude;
poke one's nose in, thrust one's nose in.
Adj. active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated,
vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, rited, stirring.
nimble, nimble as a squirrel; agile; light-footed, nimble-footed;
featly, tripping.
quick, prompt, yare, instant, ready, alert, spry, sharp, smart; fast
&c. (swift) 274; quick as a lamplighter, expeditious; awake, broad awake;
go-ahead, live [U.S.] wide-awake &c. (intelligent) 498.
forward, eager, strenuous, zealous, enterprising, in earnest; resolute
&c. 604.
industrious, assiduous, diligent, sedulous, notable, painstaking;
intent &c. (attention) 457; indefatigable &c. (persevering) 604a;
unwearied; unsleeping, never tired; plodding, hardworking &c. 686;
businesslike, workaday.
bustling; restless, restless as a hyena; fussy, fidgety, pottering;
busy, busy as hen with one chicken.
working, at work, on duty, in harness; up in arms; on one's legs, at
call; up and doing, up and stirring.
busy, occupied; hard at work, hard at it; up to one's ears in, full of
business, busy as a bee.
meddling &c. v.; meddlesome, pushing, officious, overofficious,
intrigant.
astir, stirring; agoing, afoot; on foot; in full swing; eventful; on
the alert, &c. (vigilant) 459.
Adv. actively &c. adj.; with life and spirit, with might and main &c.
686,with haste &c. 684, with wings; full tilt, in mediis rebus.
Int. be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving!
go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis! jaldi! karo! step lively!
Phr. carpe diem [Latin: sieze the day] &c. (opportunity) 134; nulla
dies sine linea [Pliny]; nec mora nec requies [Vergil]; the plot thickens;
No sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; "veni vidi vici" [Suetonius];
catch a weasel asleep; abends wird der Faule fleissig [German]; dictum ac
factum [Terence] schwere Arbeit in der Jugend ist sanfte Ruhe im
Alter[German: hard work in youth means soft rest in age]; "the busy hum of
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#683. Inactivity. -- N. inactivity; inaction &c. 681; inertness &c.
172; obstinacy &c. 606.
lull &c. (cessation) 142; quiescence &c. 265; rust, rustiness.
idleness, remissness &c. adj.; sloth, indolence, indiligence; dawdling
&c. v. ergophobia, otiosity.
dullness &c. adj.; languor; segnity|, segnitude|; lentor; sluggishness
&c. (slowness) 275; procrastination &c. (delay) 133; torpor, torpidity,
torpescence; stupor &c. (insensibility) 823; somnolence; drowsiness &c.
adj.; nodding &c. v.; oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, bypnotism,
lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.
sleep, slumber; sound sleep, heavy sleep, balmy sleep; Morpheus;
Somnus; coma, trance, ecstasis, dream, hibernation, nap, doze, snooze,
siesta, wink of sleep, forty winks, snore; hypnology.
dull work; pottering; relaxation &c. (loosening) 47; Castle of
Indolence.
[Cause of inactivity] lullaby, sedative &c. 174; torpedo.
idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy,
sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant &c. (runaway) 623: bummer [U.S],
lounger, lazzarone, loafer; lubber, lubbard; slow coach &c. (slow.) 275;
opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard; slumberer, dormouse, marmot;
waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus.
V. be inactive &c. adj.; do nothing &c. 681; move slowly &c. 275; let
the grass grow under one's feet; take one's time, dawdle, drawl, droil,
lag, hang back, slouch; loll, lollop; lounge, poke, loaf, loiter; go to
sleep over; sleep at one's post, ne battre que d'une aile.
take it easy, take things as they come; lead an easy life, vegetate,
swim with the stream, eat the bread of idleness; loll in the lap of luxury,
loll in the lap of indolence; waste time, consume time, kill time, lose
time; burn daylight, waste the precious hours.
idle away time, trifle away time, fritter away time, fool away time;
spend time in, take time in; peddle, piddle; potter, pudder, dabble, faddle
fribble, fiddle-faddle; dally, dilly-dally.
sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top,
sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze,
drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap &c. n.; dream; snore one's best, settle to
sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep;
close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids;
get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn.
languish, expend itself, flag, hang fire; relax.
render idle &c. adj.; sluggardize; mitigate &c. 174.
Adj. inactive; motionless &c. 265; unoccupied &c. (doing nothing) 681
unbusied.
indolent, lazy, slothful, idle, lusk, remiss, slack, inert, torpid,
sluggish, otiose, languid, supine, heavy, dull, leaden, lumpisb; exanimate,
soulless; listless; drony, dronish; lazy as Ludlam's dog.
dilatory, laggard; lagging &c. v.; slow &c. 275; rusty, flagging;
lackadaisical, maudlin, fiddle-faddle; pottering &c. v.;shilly-shally &c.
(irresolute) 605.
sleeping, &c. v.; asleep; fast asleep, dead asleep, sound asleep; in a
sound sleep; sound as a top, dormant, comatose; in the arms of Morpheus, in
the lap of Morpheus.
sleepy, sleepful; dozy, drowsy, somnolent, torpescent, lethargic,
lethargical; somnifacient; statuvolent, statuvolic; heavy, heavy with
sleep; napping; somnific, somniferous; soporous, soporific, soporiferous;
hypnotic; balmy, dreamy; unawakened, unawakened.
sedative &c. 174.
Adv. inactively &c. adj.; at leisure &c. 685.
Phr. the eyes begin to draw straws; "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of
ease" [Dryden]; " better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"
[Tennyson]; "idly busy rolls their world away [Goldsmith]; "the mystery of
folded sleep" [Tennyson]; "the timely dew of sleep" [Milton]; "thou
driftest gently down the tides of sleep" [Longfellow]; "tired Nature's
sweet restorer, balmy sleep" [Young].

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#684. Haste. -- N. haste, urgency,; despatch, dispatch; acceleration,
spurt, spirt, forced march, rush, dash; velocity &c. 274; precipitancy,
precipitation, precipitiousness &c. adj.; impetuosity; brusquerie; hurry,
drive, scramble, bustle, fuss, fidget, flurry, flutter, splutter.
V. haste, hasten; make haste, make a dash &c. n.; hurry on, dash on,
whip on, push on, press on, press forward; hurry, skurry, scuttle along,
bundle on, dart to and fro, bustle, flutter, scramble; plunge, plunge
headlong; dash off; rush &c. (violence) 173; express.
bestir oneself &c. (be active) 682; lose no time, lose not a moment,
lose not an instant; make short work of; make the best of one's time, make
the best of one's way.
be precipitate &c. adj.; jump at, be in haste, be in a hurry &c. n.;
have no time, have not a moment to lose, have not a moment to spare; work
against time.
quicken &c. 274; accelerate, expedite, put on, precipitate, urge,
whip; railroad.
Adj. hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate,
headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy;
pushing.
in haste, in a hurry &c. n.; in hot haste, in all haste; breathless,
pressed for time, hard pressed, urgent.
Adv. with haste, with all haste, with breathless speed; in haste &c.
adj.; apace &c. (swiftly) 274; amain; all at once &c. (instantaneously)
113; at short notice &c., immediately &c. (early) 132; posthaste; by cable,
by express, by telegraph, by forced marches.
hastily, precipitately &c. adj.; helter-skelter, hurry-skurry, holus-
bolus; slapdash, slap-bang; full-tilt, full drive; heels over head, head
and shoulders, headlong, a corps perdu.
by fits and starts, by spurts; hop skip and jump.
Phr. sauve qui peut,, devil take the hindmost, no time to be lost; no
sooner said than done &c. (early) 132; a word and a blow; maggire fretta
minore atto; ohne Hast aber ohne Rast [German] [Goethe's motto]; "stand not
upon the order of your going but go at once" [Macbeth]; "swift, swift, you
dragons of the night" [Cymbelinel.

#685. Leisure. -- N. leisure; convenience; spare time, spare hours,
spare moments; vacant hour; time, time to spare, time on one's hands;
holiday &c. (rest) 687; otium cum dignitate [Cic.], ease.
V. have leisure &c. n.; take one's time, take one's leisure, take
one's ease; repose &c. 687; move slowly &c. 275; while away the time &c.
(inaction) 681; be master of one's time, be an idle man.
Adj. leisure, leisureIy; slow &c. 275; deliberate, quiet, calm,
undisturbed; at leisure, at one's ease, at a loose end.
Phr. time hanging heavy on one's hands; eile mit Weile.

#686. Exertion. -- N. exertion, effort, strain, tug, pull, stress,
throw, stretch, struggle, spell, spurt, spirt; stroke of work, stitch of
work.
"a strong pull a long pull and a pull all together"; dead lift; heft;
gymnastics; exercise, exercitation; wear and tear; ado; toil and trouble;
uphill work, hard work, warm work; harvest time.
labor, work, toil, travail, manual labor, sweat of one's brow, swink,
drudgery, slavery, fagging, hammering; limae labor; operoseness, operosity.
trouble, pains, duty; resolution &c. 604; energy &c. (physical) 171.
V. exert oneself; exert one's energies, tax one's energies; use
exertion.
labor, work, toil, moil, sweat, fag, drudge, slave, drag a lengthened
chain, wade through, strive, stretch a long arm; pull, tug, ply; ply the
oar, tug at the oar; do the work; take the laboring oar
bestir oneself (be active) 682; take trouble, trouble oneself.
work hard; rough it; put forth one's strength, put forth a strong arm;
fall to work, bend the bow; buckle to, set one's shoulder to the wheel &c.
(resolution) 604; work like a horse, work like a cart horse, work like a
galley slave, work like a coal heaver; labor day and night, work day and
night; redouble one's efforts; do double duty; work double hours, work
double tides; sit up, burn the candle at both ends; stick to &c.
(persevere) 604a; work one's way, fight one's way,; lay about one, hammer
at.
take pains; do one's best, do one's level best, do one's utmost; do
the best one can, do all one can, do all in one's power, do as much as in
one lies, do what lies in one's power; use one's best endeavor, use one's
utmost endeavor; try one's best, try one's utmost; play one's best card;
put one's best leg foremost, put one's right leg foremost; have one's whole
soul in his work, put all one's strength into, strain every nerve; spare no
efforts, spare no pains; go all lengths; go through fire and water &c.
(resolution) 604; move heaven and earth, leave no stone unturned.
Adj. laboring &c. v.
laborious, operose, elaborate; strained; toilsome, troublesome,
wearisome; uphill; herculean, gymnastic, palestric.
hardworking, painstaking; strenuous, energetic.
hard at work, on the stretch.
Adv. laboriously &c. adj.; lustily; pugnis et calcibus; with might and
main, with all one's might, with a strong hand, with a sledge hammer, with
much ado; to the best of one's abilities, totis viribus, vi et armis,
manibus pedibusque, tooth and nail, unguibus et rostro, hammer and tongs,
heart and soul; through thick and thin &c. (perseverance) 604a.
by the sweat of one's brow, suo Marte.
Phr. aide-toi le ciel t'aidera;" and still be doing, never done"
[Butler]; buen principio la mitad es hecha; cosa ben fatta e' fatta due
volie;" it is better to wear out than to rust out" [Bp. Hornel; labor omnia
vincit [Vergil] "labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven"
[Carlyle]; le travail du corps delivre des peines de l'esprit; manu forti;
ora et labora.


#687. Repose. -- N. repose, rest, silken repose; sleep &c. 683.
relaxation, breathing time; halt, stay, pause &c. (cessation) 142;
respite.
day of rest, dies non, Sabbath, Lord's day, holiday, red-letter day,
vacation, recess.
V. repose; rest, rest and be thankful; take a rest, take one's ease.
relax, unbend, slacken; take breath &c. (refresh) 689; rest upon one's
oars; pause &c. (cease) 142; stay one's hand.
lie down; recline, recline on a bed of down, recline on an easy chair;
go to rest, go to bed, go to sleep &c. 683.
take a holiday, shut up shop; lie fallow &c. (inaction) 681.
Adj. reposing &c. v.; unstrained.
Adv. at rest.
Phr."the best of men have ever loved repose" [Thompson]; "to repair
our nature with comforting repose" [Henry VIII].

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#688. Fatigue. -- N. fatigue; weariness &c. 841; yawning, drowsiness
&c. 683; lassitude, tiredness, fatigation|, exhaustion; sweat; dyspncea.
anhelation, shortness of breath; faintness; collapse, prostration,
swoon, fainting, deliquium, syncope, lipothymy; goneness.
V. be fatigued &c. adj.; yawn &c. (get sleepy) 683; droop, sink, flag;
lose breath, lose wind; gasp, pant, puff, blow, drop, swoon, faint,
succumb.
fatigue, tire, weary, irk, flag, jade, harass, exhaust, knock up, wear
out, prostrate.
tax, task, strain; overtask, overwork, overburden, overtax,
overstrain.
Adj. fatigued &c. v.; weary &c. 841; drowsy &c. 683; drooping &c. v.;
haggard; toilworn, wayworn:, footsore, surbated|, weatherbeaten; faint;
done up, used up, knocked up; bushed * [U.S.]; exhausted, prostrate, spent;
overtired, overspent, overfatigued; unrefreshed, unrestored.
worn, worn out; battered, shattered, pulled down, seedy, altered.
breathless, windless; short of breath, out of breath, short of wind;
blown, puffing and blowing; short-breathed; anhelose; broken winded, short-
winded; dyspnaeal, dyspnaeic.
ready to drop, all in, more dead than alive, dog-weary, walked off
one's legs, tired to death, on one's last legs, played out, hors de combat.
fatiguing &c v.; tiresome, irksome, wearisome; weary, trying.

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