enervation
Example Sentences
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A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2022
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
Radio and television broadcasts about these events make up part of Suspiria’s murmuring ambient soundtrack, though the facts of what happened seem less important than the general mood of anxiety and enervation.
From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2018
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
Mrs. Carpenter was resting, in a very abandonment of rest; but in the abandonment of the moment shewing, as she did not use to shew it, the great enervation and prostration of her system.
From A Letter of Credit by Susan Warner
