enervated
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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
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 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
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