Sample Sentences forenervate (auto-selected)
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The late nights and drugs were so enervating, she couldn't hold on to her job.enervating = causing one to feel drained of energy
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or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?† (source)
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But, mindful of paramount obligations I strive against scruples that may tend to enervate decision.† (source)
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We listened along with him for a moment in order to observe, for instance, how such a peripatetic passage-at-arms might sound under the shadow of the personality strolling beside the combatants and how his presence might secretly enervate their struggle.† (source)
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But Mr. Tulliver was determined not to encourage such shuffling people any longer; and a ride along the Basset lanes was not likely to enervate a man's resolution by softening his temper.† (source)
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He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to enervate a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him.† (source)
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I was sick, enervated, depressed, losing my tenuous hold on reality.† (source)
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Enervating.† (source)
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Procedure Of The Federal Courts Natural weakness of the judiciary power in confederations—Legislators ought to strive as much as possible to bring private individuals, and not States, before the Federal Courts—How the Americans have succeeded in this—Direct prosecution of private individuals in the Federal Courts—Indirect prosecution of the States which violate the laws of the Union—The decrees of the Supreme Court enervate but do not destroy the provincial laws.† (source)
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What is the nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations?† (source)
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Enervation.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years' voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unenervated means not and reverses the meaning of enervated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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They could have been returning from a volleyball match, thoroughly enervated, sobered by near glory.† (source)
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If he possesses an unusual share of native energy, or the enervating magic of place do not operate too long upon him, his forfeited powers may be redeemable.† (source)
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There are no revolutions which do not shake existing belief, enervate authority, and throw doubts over commonly received ideas.† (source)
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It enervates the powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.† (source)
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