Enervating
['enə:veitiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Enervate
Editor: Nita
Examples
- One cannot resist speculation as to what might have happened to Edison himself and to the development of electricity had he made this proposed plunge into the enervating tropics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Editor: Nita