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  1. 1. n. 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. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy Source: wordnet
  3. 3. n. exhaustion resulting from lack of food Source: wordnet
  4. 4. 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. Source: webster
  5. 5. The condition of being inane; emptiness; want of fullness, asin the vessels of the body; hence, specifically, exhaustion from wantof food, either from partial or complete starvation, or from adisorder 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. Source: adambom
  6. 6. n. weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy n. exhaustion resulting from lack of food Source: ecdict

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