enervate
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Removing this key link of Westlake Avenue at this critical juncture could undo much of the recovery we’ve fought for and permanently enervate the small businesses of South Lake Union.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024
Family crises that some might view as a call to action mostly just enervate her: She doesn’t need another reminder that middle age can be overwhelmingly hard and ponderously boring.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022
Worries over the potential of technology to isolate and enervate citizens long predate Max Headroom, to be sure.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2019
We prefer wines that are nimble and energetic, that refresh the palate rather than enervate.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018
The voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and I am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if I were able to afford it.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
It enervates a person, and what’s the point in that?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla.
From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2018
Food is fuel, the right kind can energize the wrong kind enervates.
From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012
His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires.
From Time Magazine Archive
It enervates the mental powers, and unfits them for close study and serious contemplation.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb
Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
Moreover, this episode is edited in such a busy manner that enervated viewers may just wait it out to see who lives, who dies and how any double crosses play out.
From Salon ● Mar. 3, 2023
Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2022
Nevertheless, the bloated “Certified Lover Boy,” released last year, was his least focused album, and also his least imaginative — he sounded enervated, fatigued with his own ideas.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022
He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Such flat, enervating filmmaking makes the whole endeavor a shockingly cynical affair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
It gives the musical a rousing finish, but cannot erase the enervating effect of much of what has come before.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Yet when he spoke following the haphazard 2-1 Europa League defeat on Thursday, there was a enervating familiarity about how the Rangers head coach explained away the outcome.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025
Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
On the contrary: if something’s enervating, it drains you of energy.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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