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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Radio and television broadcasts about these events make up part of Suspiria’s murmuring ambient soundtrack, though the facts of what happened seem less important than the general mood of anxiety and enervation.

From Slate • Oct. 26, 2018

Yet in this production, there is always energy in seeming enervation.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2016

In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

This is no new thing, for in all ages the enervation and decrepitude of the bodily frame has been observed to follow a prodigal waste of the mental or corporeal energies.

From Buchanan's Journal of Man, September 1887 Volume 1, Number 8 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)