enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
enervates
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present tense formof enervate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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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
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
