enervated

Example Sentences

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

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2023

Visually, the darkly personal images are enervated, at once tactile and jumpy.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2022

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

This is an actor who last year transformed Samuel Beckett’s enervated Gogo, from the Druid’s “Waiting for Godot,” into the human equivalent of a pogo stick.

From New York Times • Nov. 10, 2019

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