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verb

past tense of enervate
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for enervated
Adjective
  • By daybreak, we were soaked, hungry, and exhausted.
    Derek Horner, Outdoor Life, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Once the jaguar is secure on the floatation device, the rescue vessel carries the exhausted predator along the river — one of the largest tributaries of the Amazon — towards land.
    Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • What has changed is that higher ed itself is arguably weaker than ever.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, weather models vary widely on how strong Lorenzo could get in the coming days, ranging from a weak tropical storm to a Category 2 hurricane, the hurricane center said.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • While in most places these efforts succeeded in the short term, over time the lived realities—particularly the everyday violence—of military rule undermined support for the royal cause, dooming efforts to resuscitate the British Empire in America.
    Time, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Whatever desire the audience might have to root for Kerr is undermined by his mounting failures in the ring and his growing friction with Dawn.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Nearly everything weakened, from Big Tech companies like Nvidia and Apple to stocks of smaller companies looking to get past uncertainty about tariffs and trade.
    Nino Paoli, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025
  • Eighteen packages of European Union sanctions and dozens more from the United States, United Kingdom and others have weakened Russia’s economy – but not its resolve to carry on fighting.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 11 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 13 Oct. 2025
  • If the Jays can take advantage of a tired Seattle squad in the first two games of this contest, their grip on the series could be hard to overcome.
    The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The festival unfolds at a particularly tenuous time for the documentary field, which for the past several years has faced a feeble acquisition market.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Cupping was quite popular among feeble white women in North America, and those same marks, Daria knew, were present on her own body, concealed beneath her loose T-shirt.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Tubs are available to rent by the hour and are fully drained and sanitized between uses.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • For places where water can’t be drained, like ponds and fountains, use mosquito dunks or bits that contain bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, BTI, a naturally occurring bacterium that kills mosquito larvae but is harmless to pets, birds and other wildlife.
    Tiffany Acosta, AZCentral.com, 11 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Add trinity mix and 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and cook, stirring often, until softened and scraping up any brown bits on bottom of pan, 8 to 10 minutes.
    Marianne Williams, Southern Living, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Compared to refrigerator-temperature butter, softened butter blends more easily with the other wet ingredients.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Oct. 2025
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“Enervated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enervated. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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