NERVOUS PROSTRATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nervous prostration mean? 

• NERVOUS PROSTRATION (noun)
  The noun NERVOUS PROSTRATION has 1 sense:

1. an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

  Familiarity information: NERVOUS PROSTRATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NERVOUS PROSTRATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

nervous exhaustion; nervous prostration

Hypernyms ("nervous prostration" is a kind of...):

nervous breakdown (a severe or incapacitating emotional disorder)

 Context examples 

Of nervous prostration following on great loss or waste of blood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The Duke is greatly agitated, and, as to me, you have seen yourselves the state of nervous prostration to which the suspense and the responsibility have reduced me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Even the knowledge that he had succeeded where the police of three countries had failed, and that he had outmanœuvred at every point the most accomplished swindler in Europe, was insufficient to rouse him from his nervous prostration.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)