NOUN
- weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy
- exhaustion resulting from lack of food
How To Use inanition In A Sentence
- For the young lovers, Pelléas and Mélisande, the only ‘happiness’ is acquiescence in their destiny - what happens to them; and acquiescence becomes identified with inanition.
- I would not accept a proposition that even if a Plaintiff's case has collapsed of its inanition or for some reason or other, judgment should nevertheless be given to him on the ground that a defence set up by the opponent has also collapsed.
- Despite surgical resection and chemotherapy, the patient's condition deteriorated during the next month and he died of inanition and cardiac failure.
- Asthma, cancer, wasting, hemorrhage, inanition, and death have been linked to mold exposure since ancient times.
- Actual retention of urine, that is, urinary secretion passed into the bladder, but retention in the latter viscus by inanition, stricture, or other obstruction, naturally cannot continue any great length of time without mechanically rupturing the vesical walls; but suppression of urine or absolute anuria may last an astonishingly extended period. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
- The inanition delirium of tuberculosis resembles that of carcinosis and malaria. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Vocabulary words in the lyrics to Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Execrescence acephalism conglutinate defalcate effigous embryologic hecatombic hypermetropicism inanition minatory sempiternal Impetuous Ritual are the rhythm section of Portal (interviewed here). INVISIBLE ORANGES - THE METAL MP3 BLOG
- Even without, or before, revolution or foreign invasion, states can decline of their own inanition.
- Vocabulary words in the lyrics to Relentless Execution of Ceremonial Execrescence acephalism conglutinate defalcate effigous embryologic hecatombic hypermetropicism inanition minatory sempiternal Impetuous Ritual are the rhythm section of Portal (interviewed here). INVISIBLE ORANGES - THE METAL MP3 BLOG
- At the office, he has perfected the art of doing nothing - and he has become such a virtuoso that his colleagues recognize in his inanition the sign of a truly great worker.