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- adjective lacking strength or vigor.
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- adjective
Weakened ,debilitated ordeprived ofstrength orvitality . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
enervate .
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- adjective lacking strength or vigor
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Examples
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The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended.
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Nor does the former mayor address the secondary point that the putatively omnipotent USSR 17 years later lost the Cold War to the apparently "enervated" USA.
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It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level.
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Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?
No Land Grab 2010
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Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?
No Land Grab 2010
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Christianity because he feared that it might otherwise lapse into a kind of enervated allegory.
Latest Articles 2010
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Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?
No Land Grab eric 2010
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In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe.
Forbes.com: News 2010
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Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?
No Land Grab eric 2010
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In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe.
Forbes.com: News 2010
brandelion commented on the word enervated
excellent word. JK Rowling is famous for mis-using it.
December 4, 2006