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Wiktionary

  1. adj. Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.
  2. v. Simple past tense and past participle of enervate.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. lacking strength or vigor.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. lacking strength or vigor

Examples

  • “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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  • “The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Munro Doctrine of Humor

  • “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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  • “Christianity because he feared that it might otherwise lapse into a kind of enervated allegory.”

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  • “Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?”

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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.”

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  • “I started thinking about the kind of enervated torpor-like state that CFS patients experience and I asked him if this could be related to CFS.”

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  • “He can became a this out), or a kind of enervated huckster.”

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  • “Eir reeled back, her figure transforming again into that of a norn warrior—shaking, sweating, enervated, and defeated.”

    Simon & Schuster: GuildWars Edge of Destiny

  • “I think that a statist government necessarily requires an enervated populace devoted towards taxing the producers to death.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Federalism Restoration Amendment: Take 2

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  • brandelion excellent word. JK Rowling is famous for mis-using it. Dec 3, 2006

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