enervating
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8.3
- adjective
- /ˈɛnərˌveɪtɪŋ/
:
debilitante
- The heat and humidity of summer can be enervating, leaving you feeling drained and tired.
Examples
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Running a marathon can be an enervating experience, testing your physical and mental limits.
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But these, these things are what Kierkegaard calls life relationships, and they're replaced by what he calls an enervating tension.
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An accompanying myth is of the supportive woman standing by her man, which carries the shadow of the treacherous, enervating woman who sucks the man dry.
Academic text (2001) -
As the hot, humid, enervating month elapsed, the Common Sense candidates finished devising their strategies, and the campaign began in earnest.
Fiction book (2001) -
The latest installment—Resident Evil: Retribution—arguably is the least coherent and most enervating yet.
Blog text (33) -
While I continue in recovery upon reentry from the aftermath of serving as commissioner to GA220, I am at the same time feeling somewhat "up in the air" about all that transpired and am in the process of discerning even more intensively, it seems, following such an exhaustively productive, if enervating experience.
Blog text (12) -
After a long day of work, I found the constant meetings to be completely enervating.
Synonyms
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3.2
To make you feel very tired
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Making something feel very dull and boring
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8.6
To make someone feel bored and without energy or interest
Causing a loss of strength and energy so a person cannot do normal activities
Making someone or something weak and less able to do things
Causing a person, animal, or thing to become less strong
Does not interest, excite, or make people feel energetic
Antonyms
How Draining
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word enervating comes from Latin parts e- meaning 'out' and nervus meaning 'nerve', the same root as English nerve. So, something enervating is like taking the nerve out of you, which is why it makes you feel weak and low on energy.