enervation
Example Sentences
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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Scrape away the hype and the hyperbole, the enervation and the exhaustion, and you find any number of more useful or wrenching impulses: kindness, hatred, antipathy, humanity, pity, awe, disgust, even ambivalence.
From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
It’s not insane to throw yourself into a sea of anxious rumor, if it helps ward off enervation and despair.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2016
In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
She was not sure that she did not prefer enervation with Barclay to action with Osgood.
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various
