enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
had enervated
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past perfectof enervate.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The long wait at the peak had enervated her.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2013
Wealth and power had inflated them with false security, with egotistic aims; or else had enervated them and undermined their strength.
From The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord
I was young; I had good health; pleasure and I had never met; no indulgence of hers had enervated or sated one faculty of my nature.
From The Professor by Charlotte Brontë
The tropics had enervated him, though he made no such confession.
From Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel by Will Levington Comfort
They had banished from all their estates a senseless custom which had enervated and depopulated the southern countries.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
