Usually means: Exhaustion caused by lack of nourishment.
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  3. inanition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inanition: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. inanition: Wiktionary
  8. inanition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inanition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  11. inanition: Dictionary.com
  12. Inanition: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  14. inanition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inanition: Rhymezone
  16. Inanition: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inanition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inanition: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. inanition: FreeDictionary.org
  20. inanition: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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  1. inanition: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. inanition: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Inanition, Inanition, Inanition: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (inanition)

noun:  The act of removing the contents of something; the state of being empty.
noun:  (medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
noun:  (philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to nausea in existentialist philosophy.

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