enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
was enervating
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past progressiveof enervate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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
The other gave them time to fold their hands and indulge in a complacency, ridiculous as it was enervating.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by T. C. DeLeon
The sudden heat was enervating and gave her the feeling of luxurious languor that she longed to enjoy with a sense of security and freedom from care.
From What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe
Life in the bakery was disagreeable and hard; the work was enervating and the pay small: seven reales per day.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
The climate was enervating, and Englishwomen who stayed in the country long felt it more than men, but this did not quite account for her jaded look.
From Brandon of the Engineers by Harold Bindloss
