enervation

English

Etymology

From Middle French énervation.

Pronunciation

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Noun

enervation (countable and uncountable, plural enervations)

1. Act of enervating; debilitation.
2. 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

Act, or state, of enervating or exhausting

• Maori: whakaruhinga

Anagrams

• Evertonian, veneration