enervated

Example Sentences

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Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023

Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021

This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2019

Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane