Friday 3 October 2008

Word of the Day: Enervated

Well, I got this one wrong. Not quite what I thought it was. I was close, but only got a funky banana...

I was thinking about using it to describe the state I was in the other night when I had driven in to work and then from work to Bendigo. The idea being that I was exhausted but so wound up I couldn't relax. I thought that's what enervated meant. Exhausted but with nervous energy or some such. Instead, according to Dictionary.com it means:

"without vigor, force, or strength; languid."

So, does anyone know if there is a word that means exhausted and in such a state of exhaustion that you are shaking from it, but at the same time so tense you feel like you're a spring and you can't relax to save yourself?

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