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verb

enervate

to cause someone to feel drained of energy

In a sentence

Six example sentences with enervate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Long courses of that treatment enervate patients so thoroughly that walking to the mailbox becomes an afternoon's project.

    Medicine

  • Three days of humid heat enervated the whole group, and by Friday nobody wanted to leave the shaded courtyard.

    Travel

  • Endless fetch quests enervate players, and the reviews all mention quitting somewhere around the fourth identical delivery mission.

    Gaming

  • Training at noon in August enervates even seasoned runners, so the club moved its long runs to dawn.

    Fitness

  • Eighteen months of campaigning had enervated the candidate, and her final rallies ran barely twenty minutes.

    Politics

  • Back-to-back status meetings enervate a team faster than real work does, leaving nobody with energy for the afternoon.

    Business

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