Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
nervous prostration — {n.} An illness of the mind that makes you feel very tired, worried, and bored, and that often causes headaches, upset stomach, and other sickness. * /Aunt Jane said that taking care of us children all day was enough to give any woman nervous… … Dictionary of American idioms
nervous\ prostration — noun An illness of the mind that makes you feel very tired, worried, and bored, and that often causes headaches, upset stomach, and other sickness. Aunt Jane said that taking care of us children all day was enough to give any woman nervous… … Словарь американских идиом
nervous prostration — Synonyms and related words: breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack up, crackup, draining, exhaustedness, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, jangled nerves, nervous breakdown, nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia, neurosis,… … Moby Thesaurus
nervous prostration — noun an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work • Syn: ↑nervous exhaustion • Hypernyms: ↑nervous breakdown * * * noun see nervous breakdown … Useful english dictionary
nervous prostration — neurasthenia … Medical dictionary
nervous breakdown — [n] mental collapse burnout*, crackup*, depression, emotional collapse, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, shattered nerves; concept 410 … New thesaurus
nervous breakdown — Synonyms and related words: brain disease, breakdown, circulatory collapse, collapse, crack up, crackup, emotional disorder, emotional instability, exhaustion, frayed nerves, frazzled nerves, functional nervous disorder, insanity, jangled nerves … Moby Thesaurus
nervous exhaustion — noun an emotional disorder that leaves you exhausted and unable to work • Syn: ↑nervous prostration • Hypernyms: ↑nervous breakdown * * * extreme mental and physical fatigue caused by excessive emotional stress; neurasthenia. Also called nervous… … Useful english dictionary
prostration — n. heat; nervous prostration * * * [prɒ streɪʃ(ə)n] nervous prostration heat … Combinatory dictionary
prostration — Synonyms and related words: accubation, accumbency, aching heart, adoration, adulation, adynamia, agony, agony of mind, anemia, anguish, apple polishing, ass kissing, atony, backscratching, bale, bend, bending the knee, bitterness, blah feeling,… … Moby Thesaurus
