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accable

adj.
C2 Proficiency ac·ca·ble Archaic

adj. feeling very tired, weak, or overwhelmed. It is an old word that describes a state of being crushed by a heavy burden.

adj. overcome by a sense of physical or mental exhaustion; crushed or overwhelmed.


SIMPLE

The weary traveler looked accable after the long journey.

CONTEXTUAL

After the heavy defeat, the general appeared accable, his shoulders slumped under the weight of his failure.

COMPLEX

The protagonist's accable state is mirrored in the novel's somber descriptions of the decaying estate, where every shadow seems to press down on the weary inhabitants.

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