enervate

• Shun all that may enervate or diminish your youthful energies. —  Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826
• Heredity bugaboos dishearten, enervate, encourage excesses and neglect. —  Civics and Health
• There are families that have "clutched success and kept it through generations from the simple fact of a splendid physical organization handed down from one generation to another Illustration: William Ewart Gladstone All occupations that enervate, paralyze, or destroy body or soul should be avoided. —  Pushing to the Front
• To enervate, irritate, or corrupt the body is to produce a like effect upon the mind. —  Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.
• The mildness of the climate and the fruitfulness of the soil combined to enervate, instead of stimulating them to active industry, without which there can be no prosperity for any country. —  The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest

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