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
His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires.
From Time Magazine Archive
A sickly sentimentality too often enervates the administration of justice; and the pardoning power becomes the master-key to let out unwashed, unrepentant criminals.
From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher
