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

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

Poetry has no practical use; it rather enervates men than urges them to the call of duty; and above all, there are more profitable occupations in which the righteous man may be engaged.

From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn

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

From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023

Nevertheless, the bloated “Certified Lover Boy,” released last year, was his least focused album, and also his least imaginative — he sounded enervated, fatigued with his own ideas.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

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

Soon my mind was saturated, my being enervated, yet my soul continued to live and hope for better days.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

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