What is "nervous exhaustion"

Usage examples of "nervous exhaustion".

If Dirak did not collapse with nervous exhaustion before the end of a fortnight, Melles would be very much surprised.

Her head pounded, and her nervous exhaustion came back, with a vengeance.

Cordelia grew twitchier with each mild encounter, drained by nervous exhaustion.

Before a month was over the fearless dean had become a popular hero, though he seemed unconscious of his fame as he struggled to keep from collapsing with physical fatigue and nervous exhaustion.

But a little after ten-thirty we came out on to undisturbed _ mountainside and lay there, panting and exhausted, with a bitter cold wind drying the sweat of physical and nervous exhaustion on our tired bodies.

Scents of perspiration from fear and nervous exhaustion hit her and continued to grow the closer she drew to The Sea Lion.

Afterwards, clothed in clean robes, Mara still felt tired, but the attentions of the old women had eased away nervous exhaustion.

The sounds of something moving -- something bigger than the disgruntled rodents -- snapped him awake, out of the pit of nervous exhaustion into which he'd fallen.

Herded to the surface, he and the others panted in nervous exhaustion under the ) waning afternoon sun.