enervate

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

In humans most serotonin is synthesized in neurons that enervate smooth muscle cells lining the gastrointestinal tract.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

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

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 deprives a criminal of his force, of his energy, enervates his soul by weakening and frightening it, and at last exhibits a dried up mummy as a model of repentance and amendment.

From The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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

The freedoms of speech and assembly place at their center a vocal and enervated citizenry.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021

I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The result is flattening and enervating, and my dissatisfaction was apparently shared by others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

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

Rachel — despite her challenges with Celeste, her old lover David, her ailing ex-husband and her enervating work life — also discovers good things about her new life as her body changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

This time, the exercise is a different proposition, and thankfully nowhere near as enervating.

From New York Times ● May 13, 2023

Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy