📚 noun • entry_id 32358
inanition
/ɪnəˈnɪʃən/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
inanición
A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
It may be reasonably inferred that our baby will first expire of inanition, as being the frailest member of our circle; and that our twins will follow next in order.
The Diet of the street-children is in some cases an alternation of surfeit and inanition [...]
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