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enervation

enervation noun: act of enervating; debilitation.

Noun

enervation (countable and uncountable, plural enervations)

  1. Act of enervating; debilitation.
  2. State of being enervated; debility.
    • His early-morning alertness had gradually given way to bad-tempered enervation as the sun went down, and now his legs dragged, his shoulders slumped as he walked, and even from here I could hear his breath wheezing out of his nose.2010, Helon Habila, Oil on Water, AudioGO (2011), page 169

enervation meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Malayalam

enervation in Tamil

நரம்பாற்றல் குறை, நரம்பு நீக்கம், நரம்புக்கிளை நீக்கம்

enervation in Bengali

দুর্বল করার কাজ, ক্ষয়, দুর্বল হওয়ার অবস্থা, দুর্বলতা

enervation in Malayalam

exhaustion, fatigue, tiredness
തേജോഹാനി, ബലംകെടൽ, അതിക്ഷീണം, ആയാസം, അവസാദം, ക്ഷീണം

Forms of enervation

pluralenervations

Origin of enervation

From Middle French énervation.

Questions about enervation

What does enervation mean?
Enervation means act of enervating; debilitation.
What is enervation in Tamil?
Enervation in Tamil is நரம்பாற்றல் குறை, நரம்பு நீக்கம், நரம்புக்கிளை நீக்கம். See Enervation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is enervation?
Enervation is a noun.
What is the plural of enervation?
The plural of enervation is enervations.

Words near enervation in the dictionary

  1. enervates
  2. enervatest
  3. enervateth
  4. enervating
  5. enervatingly
  6. enervation
  7. enervations
  8. enervative
  9. enervator
  10. enervators
  11. enerve

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enervation (page history and authors); enervation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enervation (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); enervation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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