Enervating

Quick meaning: Enervating is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of enervate.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of enervate.

More Meanings

1. That enervates.

Example Sentences

No enervating arts refined To slumber lull'd his heaven-born might; No weak indulgence warp'd thy mind, To cloud a hero's path of light.

I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

Synonyms for enervating

Depending on context, synonyms include debilitating, enfeebling, debilitative, weakening.

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