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enervation
[v. en-er-veyt; adj. ih-nur-vit] 
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enervation
[v. en-er-veyt; adj. ih-nur-vit]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | debilitation |
| Synonyms: | attenuation, debility, depletion, devitalization, enfeeblement, exhaustion, feebleness, frailness, frailty, weakening, weakness |
| Main Entry: | exhaustion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | burnout, collapse, consumption, debilitation, debility, enervation, expenditure, fatigue, feebleness, lassitude, prostration, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, liveliness, readiness, vigor |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiredness |
| Synonyms: | brain fag, burnout, debility, dullness, enervation, ennui, exhaustion, faintness, fatigation, feebleness, heaviness, languor, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, overtiredness, weakness, weariness |
| Antonyms: | energy, freshness, liveliness, spirit, vigor |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | frazzle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | exhaustion; something very worn |
| Synonyms: | collapse, enervation, lassitude, prostration, rag, remnant, shred |
| Main Entry: | malaise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depression, sickness |
| Synonyms: | angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, despair, discomfort, disquiet, distress, doldrums, enervation, feebleness, illness, infirmity, infirmness, lassitude, melancholy, pain, sickliness, unease, uneasiness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | good health, healthiness, well being |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emasculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weakness |
| Synonyms: | debilitation, enervation, unmanliness |
| Main Entry: | debilitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depletion of strength |
| Synonyms: | debility, depletion, devitalization, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion, fatigue, infirmity, weakness |
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