enervation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French énervation.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]enervation (countable and uncountable, plural enervations)
- Act of enervating; debilitation.
- State of being enervated; debility.
- 2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 169:
- His early-morning alertness had gradually given way to bad-tempered enervation as the sun went down, and now his legs dragged, his shoulders slumped as he walked, and even from here I could hear his breath wheezing out of his nose.
Translations
[edit]Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting
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