enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
is enervating
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present progressiveof enervate (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is enervating sitting in this deadly, static atmosphere with people thinking only of pen, ink, papers and figures.
From Time Magazine Archive
The climate is enervating and is apt to reduce moral as well as physical vitality.
From Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis
Began to feel hungry about lunch-time, but happily remembered that "it is not luxury which is enervating, it is over-eating."
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
Buoyant and bracing as an elixir of life is the cool air on these mountain-sides, when the hot breath of July is enervating the dwellers in the valley below.
From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling
If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell
