have enervated
- present perfect of enervate.
Example Sentences
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I have no doubt of success in a course of years if I persevere—but it must be patience—for the Reviews have enervated and made indolent 341 men’s minds—few think for themselves.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
His excesses must, however, have enervated his frame long before his death by suffocation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
The reviewers have enervated men’s minds, and made them indolent; few think for themselves.
From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael
These restrictions have enervated her mind and paralyzed her powers.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
But our minds are infected by sloth and idleness, and luxury, and languor, and indolence: we have enervated them by opinions, and bad customs.
From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke