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--v. 5 sire, beget, get, engender, procreate, generate: He had
fathered more than forty children in his harem. 6 originate,
establish, found, invent, author, frame, initiate, institute,
create: Galileo fathered modern astronomy by inventing the
telescope.
fatherland
n. motherland, native land, mother country, homeland, (old)
country, birthplace: They return to their fatherland for an
annual visit.
fatherly adj. paternal, kindly, kind, warm, friendly, affectionate,
protective, amiable, benevolent, well-meaning, benign, caring,
sympathetic, indulgent, understanding; parental: My nephew used
to come to me for fatherly advice.
fathom v. probe, sound, plumb, penetrate, search (out), investigate,
measure, gauge, determine, ascertain, work out, get to the
bottom of, delve into, understand, grasp, divine: I never quite
fathomed the purpose of this device.
fatigue n. 1 weariness, tiredness, weakness, exhaustion, lassitude,
listlessness, lethargy, languor, sluggishness, enervation: She
kept on tending the wounded till fatigue finally overcame her.
--v. 2 weary, tire, weaken, exhaust, drain, enervate, Colloq
fag (out): My morning's work had fatigued me.
fatigued adj. weary, wearied, tired, overtired, dead tired, weak,
weakened, exhausted, listless, lethargic, languorous, sluggish,
enervated, strained, wasted, Colloq whacked (out), knocked out,
dead, beat, dead-beat, all in, Brit knackered, jiggered,
buggered, US and Canadian pooped, bushed: The firemen were
fatigued after being on duty round the clock.
fatness n. obesity, stoutness, corpulence, embonpoint, portliness,
plumpness, chubbiness, rotundity, podginess or chiefly US
pudginess: His fatness is owing to a glandular condition, not
overeating.
fault n. 1 imperfection, flaw, defect, blemish, deficiency,
shortcoming, failing, weakness; frailty, foible, peccadillo:
The fault lies in this circuit. Using filthy language is only