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Meanings of nervous prostration in anglès

An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work.

Usage of nervous prostration in anglès
1
Look at those Austrians; they've got nervous prostration of the worst sort.
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica
2
Why, the very names of the people here give me nervous prostration.
Skookum Chuck Fables: Bits of History, Through the Microscope
3
Every physician knows the intense egotism which often comes with nervous prostration.
Power Through Repose
4
Lately we hear much about worry, neurasthenia, nervous prostration and the like.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
5
He went into nervous prostration and died, still silent, a broken-hearted man.
Still Jim
6
You can't fancy an Indian suffering from nervous prostration, can you, Dick?
A Beautiful Possibility
7
She was for some time in a state apparently of intense nervous prostration.
The Lighted Way
8
The cause was overwork and complete nervous prostration which brought on low fever.
Autobiographical Sketches
9
Takacs describes a case of unilateral sweating with proportionate nervous prostration.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
10
It often seems so, especially when it begins with nervous prostration.
Power Through Repose
11
One great reason why worry produces nervous prostration is that it induces insomnia.
Quit Your Worrying!
12
When I took to traveling he all but had nervous prostration.
Arms and the Woman
13
The craven weakness, induced by his condition of nervous prostration, was almost pitiable.
The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest
14
You will have to take me to Baden for nervous prostration.
A Splendid Hazard
15
Although she had had nervous prostration and was thirty-four, she was undeniably pretty.
A Modern Chronicle — Volume 05
16
Remain quietly here till you have recovered from-fromyour nervous prostration.
A Day of Fate
This collocation consists of:
Nervous prostration through the time
Nervous prostration across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare