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

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

A real nightmare puzzles, enervates or scares the victim, and it is a rash man who tries to tell about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is perhaps no labor that so completely excites all the vital forces, exhausts the nerves, refines and enervates the feelings, as that of literary production.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

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

The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022

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

For the onetime Rangers managing partner, it was an enervating finale to a championship that eluded him when he was signing the checks.

From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2023

And so she appeased Tochi, putting America down, talking only about the things she, too, disliked about America, exaggerating her non-American accent, until the conversation became an enervating charade.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie