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enervating
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What does enervating mean?
verb
- present participle and gerund of enervate
adjective
- That enervates.
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The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.
But the air of these climates had so enervating an influence that man, absorbed by present enjoyment, was rendered regardless of the future.
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A feather pillow often causes the bead to be bathed in perspiration, thus enervating the child, and making him liable to catch cold.
I was still a field hand, and had come to prefer the severe labor of the field, to the enervating duties of a house servant.
To me it seems a very foolish custom to run away from the invigorating northern winters to the enervating sameness of southern climates.