nervous prostration
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Captured, taken to headquarters, Gangster Schultz begged for a sedative, said that he was on the verge of nervous prostration, asked that no camera flashlights be exploded.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Farm Board's wheat loans and purchases put it in a position that would have given any good banker nervous prostration.
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Among such groups of ailments are: Neurasthenia or nervous prostration.
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George Franklin Slosson, recovering at 90 from a spell of pneumonia and nervous prostration, has been a little off his billiard game lately.
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In 1923, the Daily Oklahoman said, “Brewster, the hero of the story, ‘Brewster’s Millions,’ was driven almost to nervous prostration in trying to spend $1,000,000 in one year.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
