overfatigue

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The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause them overfatigue due to faulty training.

From Time Magazine Archive

"The A.M.A. is extremely concerned about stress and overfatigue in residency," says Dr. William Jacott, chairman of the A.M.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

It teaches you just how long a man can carry a musket in one position without overfatigue, just how hard it is to keep awake on sentry duty after an exhausting day's march.

From Public Speaking by Winter, Irvah Lester

It might mean a temporary breakdown from overfatigue or a sickening for deadly illness.

From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

It's the result of accumulated poisons of overfatigue, long hours, overwrought nerves, "the military discipline of the mills."

From Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker by Walker, Charles Rumford