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

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

Yet in this production, there is always energy in seeming enervation.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 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

His condition is undignified, even dreadful: he keeps between the two extremes of work at high pressure and a state of melancholy enervation.

From On the Future of our Educational Institutions by Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)