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

In humans most serotonin is synthesized in neurons that enervate smooth muscle cells lining the gastrointestinal tract.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

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

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

A real nightmare puzzles, enervates or scares the victim, and it is a rash man who tries to tell about it.

From Time Magazine Archive

A sickly sentimentality too often enervates the administration of justice; and the pardoning power becomes the master-key to let out unwashed, unrepentant criminals.

From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher

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

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

For instance, “The Humbling” Bailey judges “an enervated performance” as if Roth is “only too conscious of writing a bad novel about not being able to write anymore.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021

But in retrospect, I was fortunate to be too enervated to read much social media or to take in any reviews.

From Salon ● May 21, 2019

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

He took to his bed, eventually so enervated that he was forced to take an indefinite leave from his job at the shipyard.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

It gives the musical a rousing finish, but cannot erase the enervating effect of much of what has come before.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025

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

Rachel — despite her challenges with Celeste, her old lover David, her ailing ex-husband and her enervating work life — also discovers good things about her new life as her body changes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023

Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022

Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy