Exhaustion vs Debilitation - What's the difference?
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The point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up.
Supreme tiredness; having exhausted energy.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (dated, chemistry) The removal (by percolation etc) of an active medicinal constituent from plant material.
(dated, physics) The removal of all air from a vessel (the creation of a vacuum).
(maths) An exhaustive procedure
The act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.
Exhaustion is a related term of debilitation.
As nouns the difference between exhaustion and debilitation
is that exhaustion is the point of complete depletion, of the state of being used up while debilitation is the act or process of debilitating, or the condition of one who is debilitated; weakness.exhaustion
English
Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion , prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}