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n. - Exhaustion that affects mental keenness.

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  • Could he find these, he would be spared all brain-fag.
  • No weariness or brain-fag, however, was apparent in the speech at
  • And even in the days of her poverty and obscurity, when her faculties were sharpened into proper appreciation by privation, those congested windows teeming with jewels, with...
  • "You think, then, it's a case of brain-fag -- nothing more?"
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