Sentence examples for enervated from inspiring English sources
The word 'enervated' is a correct and usable word in written English
It means to undermine someone's strength or confidence, to weaken them. You would use it when trying to describe something that made someone feel weaker, drained, or exhausted. For example: After being subjected to negative criticism, the candidate was left feeling enervated.
The lack of a market enervated the financial will.
The stress of travel enervated him completely, and his creative spirit shrivelled.
In his efforts to sell the Big Society, Mr Cameron sometimes portrays his country as one enervated by decades of big government.
The 18th century, with its Rationalist attack on the very foundations of Catholicism, weakened the French concern for Gallicanism, and the Revolution left it enervated.
Where Britain was enervated by the advent of the missile age and the Third World, France was invigorated.
Henry VI himself is, as Shakespeare portrays him, a weak king, raised to the kingship by the early death of his father, incapable of controlling factionalism in his court, and enervated personally by his infatuation with a dangerous Frenchwoman, Margaret of Anjou.
The volatile political situation effectively immobilized a government enervated by scandal and corruption.
Race came under attack from those who found the music enervated and out of the jazz tradition.
Thus again, as Matthew Norman spiritedly tells it, the election has opened up a chasm not only between electric Scotland and enervated England but the vibrant young and the exhausted old.
As an enervated 60,000 audience slipped away into the warm Manchester night, you could only conclude that Williams will be packing out stadiums like this for years.
The long wait at the peak had enervated her.
