"hit the wall" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: hits the wall [present, singular, third-person], hitting the wall [participle, present], hit the wall [participle, past], hit the wall [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> the wall}} hit the wall (third-person singular simple present hits the wall, present participle hitting the wall, simple past and past participle hit the wall)
  1. (informal) To experience sudden fatigue as a result of glycogen depletion, e.g. when cycling. Tags: informal Synonyms: bonk Translations (experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion): defallir (Catalan), väsähtää (Finnish), avoir un coup de pompe (French), wenn der Mann mit dem Hammer kommt (German), darle una pájara (Spanish), tappa ångan (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-hit_the_wall-en-verb-BYtiOzeN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English predicates, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 90 10 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 12 Disambiguation of English predicates: 61 39 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 89 11 Disambiguation of 'experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion': 97 3
  2. (informal, seduction community) Of a woman: to lose her physical attractiveness through growing older. Tags: informal Categories (topical): Seduction community
    Sense id: en-hit_the_wall-en-verb-7l3lzNJl Topics: lifestyle, seduction-community, sexuality
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hit a wall

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion",
      "word": "defallir"
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      "sense": "experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion",
      "word": "väsähtää"
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      "word": "avoir un coup de pompe"
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      "sense": "experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion",
      "word": "wenn der Mann mit dem Hammer kommt"
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      "sense": "experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion",
      "word": "darle una pájara"
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      "sense": "experience sudden fatigue from glycogen depletion",
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