inanition

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Such dies of inanition -- the sooner that its object is out of the way, and absence in time will conquer it.

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  1. noun Exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment or vitality.
  2. noun The condition or quality of being empty.

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  1. Middle English inanisioun, emptiness, from Old French inanicion, exhaustion from hunger, from Late Latin inānītiō, inānītiōn-, emptiness, from inānītus, past participle of inānīre, to make empty, from Latin inānis, empty.

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  1. from French inanition = Provencal inanicio = Spanish inanicion = Portuguese inanição, from Late Latin inanitio(n-), emptiness, from Latin inanire, past participle inanitus, make empty, from inanis, empty: see inane.
 

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/ɪnəˈnɪʃən/
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