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Definition

weaken mentally or morally

or:

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

Other nights she could sleep for eighteen drugged hours and wake, enervated, hardly able to stand.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49

enervated = weaken mentally or morally

or:

disturb the composure of

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

enervating = weaken mentally or morally

or:

disturb the composure of

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 distress
Bronte, 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

(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.)

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

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