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enervating

[ UK /ˈɛnəvˌe‍ɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. causing debilitation

How To Use enervating In A Sentence

  • A series of enervating campus visits is marked by interchangeably chirpy undergraduate tour guides united by their ability to walk backward while extolling the school's a capella groups and reassuring parents about the high priority placed on security. A Craving for Acceptance
  • Unfortunately, even her 8 paragraphs of tortuous, enervating prose actually puts to rest that notion immediately.
  • If the fermentation is of vegetables or fruit, the toxins are irritating, stimulating and enervating, but not so dangerous or destructive to organic life as putrefaction, which is a fermentation set up in nitrogenous matter -- protein-bearing foods, but particularly animal foods. How and When to Be Your Own Doctor
  • The men worked quite long hours, and this was trying enough in such an enervating climate.
  • For one thing, the enervating heat is enough to make anyone put off their visit until the evening hours, when lower temperatures are likely to make life more comfortable for those who want to move around the stalls.
  • Yes, I'm critical, but I'm also firmly in this show's grip and don't deny it. 24 is a classic example of why "enervating" rhymes with "entertaining. Archive 2008-05-18
  • Walk through a shopping district or a fashionable neighbourhood in Delhi and the enervating sound of a dozen generators assaults your ears.
  • The enervating experience of actually sitting through it unfortunately blunts some of the value it does have to offer.
  • Hunt's bold innovation is to bring that "black dog" to furry life as an insistent, insidious and enervating presence, sometimes known as Black Pat and sometimes - taking the name of Churchill's home - as Mr. Chartwell. Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
  • It soon becomes enervating, which is why politics rarely engage serious people's attentioo these days and are a falling market in media coverage. John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...
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