was enervating
- past progressive of enervate.
Example Sentences
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McCoy feared that the rarefied air in the Enterprise was enervating the crew.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
Perhaps the heat was enervating, but was that sufficient reason for embarrassing one's hostess?
From The Visioning by Glaspell, Susan
Life in the bakery was disagreeable and hard; the work was enervating and the pay small: seven reales per day.
From The Quest by Goldberg, Isaac
At first he thought the draught stimulative, but in a while he began to know that it was enervating.
From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie
The silence was enervating; even the horses turned their gentle eyes wonderingly to that line of steel and lances; even the wounded, tremulous, haggard, held their breath between clenched teeth and stiff, swollen lips.
From Lorraine A romance by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
