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enervation en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Middle French énervation.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Act of enervating; debilitation.
  2. (countable, uncountable) State of being enervated; debility.
    • 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. 2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 169:

Forms

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Translations (5)

fr énervation (Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting) · ca enervació (Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting) · ca enervament (Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting) · es enervación (Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting) · mi whakaruhinga (Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting)