enervate
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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
There is some sympathy which enervates instead of strengthening.
From The After-glow of a Great Reign Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral by A. F. Winnington Ingram
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
The freedoms of speech and assembly place at their center a vocal and enervated citizenry.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2021
But in retrospect, I was fortunate to be too enervated to read much social media or to take in any reviews.
From Salon ● May 21, 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
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
To be sure, not every episode has been equally good — one or two I would describe as not good — and some story arcs I found more rewarding, or more enervating, than others.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2023
Tired: I think of these enervating interruptions as “The Dead See Scrolls.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 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
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