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nervous exhaustion
noun
- extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of nervous exhaustion1
Example Sentences
Always high-strung, he was prone to mysterious fainting spells and periods of nervous exhaustion, which led some to question his dedication.
Chastain declared, referring to an incident in 1989, when Lewis was playing Hamlet at London鈥檚 National Theatre and, citing nervous exhaustion, quit the run in mid-performance, never to act onstage again.
For those left in the wake of the hurricane, Farmer鈥檚 brief, intense flurry of activity could result in a case of nervous exhaustion鈥攁 case of 鈥渄ecompressing from Paul,鈥 Jim said.
In the early 1930s, he again found himself 鈥渙n the verge of nervous exhaustion.鈥
Rather, it鈥檚 what the president hasn鈥檛 done: rage and howl and push the country to a state of nervous exhaustion.
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