enervated
Americanadjective
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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
For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2019
It certainly seemed that way at his West Virginia rally, where he appeared distracted and enervated.
From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2018
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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