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

His pedantic style more often enervates than inspires.

From Time Magazine Archive

Indeed, nothing more dangerously engages monks in the commerce of the world; nothing more enervates in them the discipline of abstinence and mortification, than for them to eat and drink with seculars abroad.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler

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

I was very conscious of the fact that readers were no less spent; no less pinched for time or enervated by illness and uncertainty as my own family.

From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020

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

From Salon ● Aug. 22, 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

In high season, pushing through the crowds clogging the temple’s graceful walkways had become an enervating and dispiriting ordeal that few locals would willingly undergo.

From New York Times ● Sep. 25, 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