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Definition
weaken mentally or morallyor:
disturb the composure of
- The late nights and drugs were so enervating, she couldn't hold on to her job.
enervating = weaken mentally or morally
or:
disturb the composure of
or:
disturb the composure of
- Other nights she could sleep for eighteen drugged hours and wake, enervated, hardly able to stand.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
- Now they must either attack the fort and accept the onus of striking the first blow, or face an indefinite and enervating occupation of Sumter by Anderson's soldiers.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- What is the nature of the luxury which enervates and destroys nations?Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience
- An artful cabal in that council would be able to distract and to enervate the whole system of administration.Hamilton, Alexander -- Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
- ... recollections calculated to enervate and distressBronte, Charlotte -- Jane Eyre
- Morrel hesitated to advance; he dreaded the enervating effect of all that he saw.Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The heat of it enervated.Nora Roberts -- Dark Witch
- On Wednesday he appeared at the office after a week at home, and Leona Cassiani was horrified at seeing him so pale and enervated.Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera
- An artful cabal in that council would be able to distract and to enervate the whole system of administration.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers
- But, mindful of paramount obligations I strive against scruples that may tend to enervate decision.Herman Melville -- Billy Budd
- I had grown to find those occasions of vice enervating.V.S. Naipaul -- A Bend in the River
- There is, in that mode of life, good mingled with evil, for if enervation is baleful, generosity is good and healthful.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- It was exhausting and enervating and deliciously pleasurable.Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
- Liza was as soft and enervated as Sappho was smart and abrupt.Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Take away the press; heresy is enervated.Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- It was the final affront, more subtle and more enervating than the offer to teach chemistry to children.Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
- I was sick, enervated, depressed, losing my tenuous hold on reality.Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
- And what is the cause of the enervation and apathy that arise when the rules of life are not abrogated from time to time?Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
enervated = weaken mentally or morally
or:
disturb the composure of
or:
disturb the composure of
enervating = weaken mentally or morally
or:
disturb the composure of
or:
disturb the composure of
(editor's note: 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.)
(editor's note: 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.)