enervation
Example Sentences
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If this level of enervation persisted, it could take years to make it through all three seasons of “Succession.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2022
Adoration and enervation course together on “Dear Mom,” as Blanchard plays a pas de deux with a large string section.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
It’s not insane to throw yourself into a sea of anxious rumor, if it helps ward off enervation and despair.
From Slate ● Nov. 16, 2016
In contrast, failure naturally elicits bitterness, resentment, dolour, enervation, listlessness, pessimism and low self‑esteem – a pretty ugly package.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
Or, to come nearer, And put the case a little clearer:— Mind, just like bodies, suffer enervation, By too much use; And sink into a state of relaxation, With long abuse.
From Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." by George Colman
