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 enervates the mental powers, and unfits them for close study and serious contemplation.

From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Newcomb, Harvey