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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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... recollections calculated to enervate and distress† (source)
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An artful cabal in that council would be able to distract and to enervate the whole system of administration.† (source)
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What is the nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations?† (source)
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They did not set out to disappoint their father, not on purpose, but neither did they wish to shoulder the lumpy, enervating burden of the mundane.† (source)
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There were centipedes three fingers wide whose bite caused excruciating pain for a day, butterflies as big as little birds, thick and nearly impenetrable jungles, bottomless mangrove swamps, man-eating-crocodile-infested rivers, millions of insects, four types of rats larger than house cats, and heavy daily torrents of rain bringing enervating humidity.† (source)
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On Wednesday he appeared at the office after a week at home, and Leona Cassiani was horrified at seeing him so pale and enervated.† (source)
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Enervating.† (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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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)unenervated = not weakenedstandard 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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Chamberlin, for instance, felt: "The firemen kept at work fighting the flames — stupidly and listlessly, for they had worked hard all of Saturday night and most of Sunday, and had been enervated by the whisky, which is always copiously poured on such occasions."† (source)
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The plane zoomed upward again in a climb that was swift and straining, until he leveled it out with another harsh shout at McWatt and wrenched it around once more in a roaring, merciless forty-five-degree turn that sucked his insides out in one enervating sniff and left him floating fleshless in mid-air until he leveled McWatt out again just long enough to hurl him back around toward the right and then down into a screeching dive.† (source)
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or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?† (source)
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It enervates the powers of the mind, and benumbs the activity of man.† (source)
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