enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
have enervated
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present perfectof enervate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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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 Charles Duke Yonge
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
Add to this, my late scenes of idleness and dissipation have enervated my mind to an alarming degree.
From The Letters of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
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 Sidney Colvin
These restrictions have enervated her mind and paralyzed her powers.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
