enervate

Removing this key link of Westlake Avenue at this critical juncture could undo much of the recovery we’ve fought for and permanently enervate the small businesses of South Lake Union.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 9, 2024

Family crises that some might view as a call to action mostly just enervate her: She doesn’t need another reminder that middle age can be overwhelmingly hard and ponderously boring.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2022

Worries over the potential of technology to isolate and enervate citizens long predate Max Headroom, to be sure.

From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2019

We prefer wines that are nimble and energetic, that refresh the palate rather than enervate.

From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2018

The voyage by boat, however, would probably enervate me, and I am certainly not perverse enough to attempt air travel even if I were able to afford it.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

It enervates a person, and what’s the point in that?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2023

And nothing enervates me more than raw tortilla.

From Salon ● Jul. 8, 2018

Food is fuel, the right kind can energize the wrong kind enervates.

From Scientific American ● May 16, 2012

His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an excuse for a practice so destructive, they allege, that it is adopted to prevent their growing too fat; but it evidently enervates them, and, in all probability, shortens their days.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr

Unfortunately for the Kraken, they looked far more enervated in Monday’s Game 7 than they did energized.

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

The enervated officials in question are tracked down and interviewed about how they had a moment of weakness but are fully committed to the task at hand.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2022

It certainly seemed that way at his West Virginia rally, where he appeared distracted and enervated.

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 2018

Chef Anthony Bourdain, whose visceral prose enervated his roving culinary programs, was mourned by fellow chefs, writers and fans Friday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2018

I have heard more than a little hissing and roaring through the factory door, but my presently somewhat enervated condition precludes a descent into that particular inferno at the moment.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

The result is flattening and enervating, and my dissatisfaction was apparently shared by others.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Yet when he spoke following the haphazard 2-1 Europa League defeat on Thursday, there was a enervating familiarity about how the Rangers head coach explained away the outcome.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2025

To be sure, not every episode has been equally good — one or two I would describe as not good — and some story arcs I found more rewarding, or more enervating, than others.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023

So welcome to the most lopsided and enervating Venice Biennale in recent memory, which came together amid a global pandemic and now opens under the sign of a European land war.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2022

On July 20, in the midst of an enervating heat wave in Austria, he traveled from Brno to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee