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Meanings of nervous exhaustion in English

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

        Synonyms
        Examples for "nervous prostration"
        Examples for "nervous prostration"
        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
        Usage of nervous exhaustion in English
        1
        In the spring of 1905, MacDowell began to suffer from nervous exhaustion.
        Edward MacDowell: A Great American Tone Poet, His Life and Music
        2
        I would gladly have fallen asleep, but nervous exhaustion kept me awake.
        The forgotten soldier
        3
        Ramond had spoken truly, his illness had been nothing but nervous exhaustion.
        Doctor Pascal
        4
        He is now in a Dublin hospital suffering from ' nervous exhaustion'.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Absolute rest for the distressing attacks of palpitation which occur with nervous exhaustion.
        Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
        6
        Just before dawn, Maliwe suddenly fell into the deep sleep of nervous exhaustion.
        Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories
        7
        Relief at being back on British soil merged with fatigue and nervous exhaustion.
        The Irish Times
        8
        Pan-at-lee slept-thetroubled sleep, of physical and nervous exhaustion, filled with weird dreamings.
        Tarzan the Terrible
        9
        Her manner was extremely languid, as of a person suffering from nervous exhaustion.
        Miss Ludington's Sister
        10
        Both oils were supposed to help reduce stress, promote relaxation, and relieve nervous exhaustion.
        It Must Be Love
        11
        In the spring of 1905 he began to manifest alarming signs of nervous exhaustion.
        Edward MacDowell: A Study
        12
        Granny Moreland stumbled to the couch and rolled on it sobbing with nervous exhaustion.
        The Harvester
        13
        He lay sleeping soundly-thesleep that comes after nervous exhaustion.
        Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
        14
        In the cab was a woman, half-collapsed from nervous exhaustion.
        Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
        15
        The first means emotional excitement and nervous exhaustion; the second artificial simulation of a feeling.
        Power Through Repose
        16
        He collapsed from nervous exhaustion, stress and nausea on his return to Moscow in August.
        A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
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        Nervous exhaustion through the time
        Nervous exhaustion across language varieties
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common