Inanition : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Inanition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
inanition n weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy Synonym(s): inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slackness exhaustion resulting from lack of food
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Inanition \In`ani"tion\, n. [F. inanition, L. inanitio emptiness, fr. inanire to empty, fr. inanis empty. Cf. {Inane}.] The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, as in the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from want of food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from a disorder of the digestive apparatus, producing the same result. Feeble from inanition, inert from weariness. --Landor. Repletion and inanition* may both do harm in two contrary extremes. --Burton.