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exhaustion

noun as in tiredness

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Murcia had run headlong into the pandemic wall, a term popularized by New York Public Radio host Tanzina Vega to capture the particular and sudden feeling of spiritual and emotional exhaustion with life during covid times.

It would be easy for both the authors and the readers to give up in futile exhaustion.

Videoconferencing is exhausting because it makes it hard to “read” people, but autistics are all too familiar with that mental exhaustion because we have always struggled with reading neurotypical people.

Many families face parenting tweens with neurological issues — and the exhaustion that can come with it.

I am concerned for their wellness and have never seen this level of bone tired exhaustion in the wonderful teachers with whom I work.

Jenkins promptly resigned and checked into a hospital for “exhaustion.”

And also with a little bit of exhaustion—he really does ask a lot of questions.

Is it exhaustion, something intensely painful in itself to someone who always felt boundless energy?

The unlikely trio became inseparable, and pushed each other to insane levels of exhaustion and physical fitness.

After HUAC and Waterfront, he writes of his exhaustion and doubts.

They have recovered their exhaustion; have cleaned up, and look full of themselves, twice the size in fact.

The narrative had excited him out of his apathy and physical exhaustion, the confession shaken the rigidity from his mind.

Aconite … night boat … sea sick … emetics … exhaustion … stimulants … hard drinking … spontaneous combustion … animal charcoal.

The working man was incited to contemplate the beauty of the night's rest that followed on the exhaustion of the day.

The sunken eyes, the tangled masses of raven hair, the look of exhaustion and hopeless woe.

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On this page you'll find 40 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exhaustion, such as: collapse, consumption, debilitation, debility, enervation, and expenditure.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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