Inanition
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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.
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