enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
were 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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There were enervating legal problems over record deals.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ease and luxury were enervating, were depraving me.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
But the touchings, the odour of the aromatics, and the fasts that she had undergone, were enervating her.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
