enervate
verb (used with object)
to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken.
will be enervating
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future progressiveof enervate.future progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that will be taking place in the future.
Example Sentences
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In my life as a sainted prophet, I shall have somewhat too much of this; it will be enervating and sickening, and I shall need another kind of diet.
From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne
We must pay for our privileges, and if a town is built in a hollow, and is sheltered from the east wind, the chances are that its climate will be enervating.
From The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891 by Charles W. Wood
