How To Use Enervate In A Sentence
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It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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Fact is, his grogginess is of a piece with his intensely absurd comedy, the enervated mutterings of one worn out by too much hard thinking.
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The preoccupation with the problem of evil, asserts Nietzsche, enervates the human spirit.
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We have grasped, perhaps more than any other nation, that there is a long-run cost to dependency on the state, including an aversion to risk that eventually enervates the entrepreneurial spirit necessary for innovation and prosperity.
Beware of the Big-Government Tipping Point
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Next door and across the piazza is the 1983 museum, the last work of an enervated Stone, co-architect of the original 1939 Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Easily Accessible Pleasures
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In short, our forty-fourth chief executive sought to end America's two-and-a-third centuries as a truly exceptional nation-more patriotic, more dynamic, more enterprising and freer than any other-to turn the republic into a kind of enervated satellite of Western Europe.
Forbes.com: News
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After charging his age with being an enervate breed which is "ever on his knees before the footstool of Authority," he goes on to observe that the process of statute-making ought to make one pause before according so much unquestioned deference to statutes.
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Businessmen, enervated by the pressures of city life, sought spiritual as well as physical refreshment in the new pastime of bushwalking.
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The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state "enervates," but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don't even notice.
The State Despotic
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When I conjure in my mind the objections that people I know make to Christianity, I am reminded of my friend on the couch, enervated by life's manifold demands.
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The day's ride had exhausted her already dwindled energy, and the night had truly enervated her.
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He rejuvenates and remoulds spiritually enervated souls and purifies their intellects by imparting unvitiated Gita knowledge to them.
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Vampires represent the fear of a shadowy cabal which parasitises and enervates the common man.
Zombies versus vampires in popular culture: an economic approach
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The tension has enervated whole generations of players.
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DIAMOND: Well, it's sort of interesting, because the same nerve that enervates our sinuses and our nose is the nerves that carry the information for migraine.
CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2009
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The lack of food enervated him and he couldn't produce the goods when they were required.
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When this is well executed, it is punchy and attention-grabbing; done badly, it is flat and enervated.
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Meanwhile, out-of-doors, you could hear the stamping and roaring of the crowd, goaded into a frenzy by repeated hymns, enfevered by its earnest desire for the Divine interposition, and growing more and more enervated by the delay.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
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Idleness enervates the will to succeed.
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A hot climate enervates people who are not used to it.
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The widespread collapse into an enervated self can not be attributed solely to the economic and social problems of our day.
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Nor does the former mayor address the secondary point that the putatively omnipotent USSR 17 years later lost the Cold War to the apparently "enervated" USA.
Stephen Schlesinger: Giuliani: Worse Than Bush
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The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended.
The Munro Doctrine of Humor
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If he is right to challenge Herodotus on the colloquial "the wind grew fagged" or the inadequate "unpleasant end," the same bathos can be achieved by straying too far in the opposite direction, to "the wind grew enervated" or "calamitous termination," say.
On the Sublime
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The knowledge of a shared destiny energizes and sustains many of us, enervates and defeats others.
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Her expression, restless and dissatisfied, her attitude, weary and enervated, gave the idea of the title admirably, and I made a good sketch.
Five Nights
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The precision of surgical sympathectomy is important - it must completely denervate the appropriate limb to be effective.
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It enervated Sven, draining his energy and willpower, then paralyzing him.
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The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
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Thanks so much and hope you regain your energy soon… don't let school or whatever it is enervate you too much.
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It was not that the founders wanted to write religion out of the new nation; Kidd insists that they tended to view robust religion as indispensable to a good society, but that there was a widespread current of thought -- among both the preachers and the Patriots -- that involvement with worldly power tended to enervate and corrupt true religion, so they were careful to reserve ministry for the ministers.
Anil Mundra: 'God Of Liberty': The Role Of Religion In American Independence
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Always ‘in character’ as the self-appointed roué, Jerome's encounters with women are strangely enervated events.
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A feather bed enervates the body of a child.
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This syndrome also illustrates the capacity of motor nerves to recover and to reinnervate the denervated face muscles.
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His enervated foster parents solved the problem by giving the little rowdy into the custody of a cloister.
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Unlike most postmodernists, he doesn't enervate the past or its ideas with condescension.
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Ionizing radiation enervates the human gene pool and it weakens our immune systems.
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We were paying the penalty of success, and the day was quite early wearing an enervated, faded, stale-end sort of air.
THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
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A few weeks of the Blair, Bush, and Campbell vision of an enervate media might change their minds.
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Diagnosis of the condition can be difficult because transplant recipients have denervated hearts and rarely present with chest pain.
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The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
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The second pathway arises from the median raphe and enervates the hippocampus and appears to mediate resilience and adaptation to stress.
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Christianity because he feared that it might otherwise lapse into a kind of enervated allegory.
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Aristophanes essayed the task both by criticism and example -- by criticism, directing the shafts of his ridicule at over-emphasis and over-subtlety, by example, writing himself in inimitable perfection the beautiful Attic dialect, which was being enervated and effeminated and spoiled in the hands of his opponents.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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If absence and remoteness do not destroy friendship, they attenuate or exhaust it, they enervate it.
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The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
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David felt too enervated to resist.
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Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Broke
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For such entertainments altogether enervate the minds of people, insensibly leading them into effeminacy, and unfitting them to endure those hardships, and fatigues, which must necessarily be undergone, to bring any province to perfection.
A Renegade History of the United States
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There is also my sense of writing against the wave of what enervates and murders writing; that is, stasis and consensus.
Lynn Crosbie reads Sid Vicious and Entertains A Few Questions
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[1] But within a few days, apparently, of this date treatment employed on the advice of Dr Joshua Ward, so weakened a body already 'enervate' and emaciated, that at first the patient “was thought to be falling into the agonies of death.”
Henry Fielding A Memoir
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Furthermore, lung denervated lung transplant patients, unlike intact subjects, showed much difficulty in entraining their spontaneous rhythm to the mechanical ventilator during sleep.
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Feeling at once enervated and threatened, the enterprise collectively hunkers into a defensive, self-protective posture.
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Unlike the response of the denervated muscle to acetylcholine, this quick response of normal mammalian muscle is suppressed with great ease by curarine.
Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
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Remember the estimate of 10,000 jobs -- the one that "enervated" Sen. Charles Schumer?
No Land Grab
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I am not a fan of the time-wastin 'speechifyin', masturbatory roundtablin ', and high-fallutin' blue-ribbon panels that enervate our government.
Bill Singer: Modern-Day Regulation: The Big Broom After the Circus Parade Passes
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The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse.
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Surgical options in the treatment of sialorrhea include surgery on the salivary glands and ducts, and surgery to denervate the glands.
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Anything that uses up nerve-energy enervates, and the child becomes toxemic because the elimination of toxin is impeded.
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One thing is certain: it has a tendency to enervate both body and mind, and were it not for the revivifying effects produced by a winter residence in the country, where gentlemen take to field sports, and ladies to razeed dresses, sensible shoes, and constitutional walks, the mortality among our "upper ten thousand" would, I believe, be frightful.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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His enemies were enervated and lacked a strong voice.
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In the pages of Water the Moon, I would come to discover with much relief the freshness that enervates even the most explored theme.
WATER THE MOON by FIONA SZE-LORRAIN
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Complications of this congenital abnormality range from paralysis, hydrocephalus, scoliosis, contractures, and joint dislocation to potential skin erosion of sensory denervated areas.
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Injury to the long thoracic nerve denervates the serratus anterior muscle and causes a winged scapula.
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But whether depressed by the small audience or enervated by the heat, the choir made little impact before the interval.
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She was enervated by the luxury of palace life.
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At that terrible injunction, “Go and conquer,” America was desolated and its inhabitants exterminated; Africa and Europe were exhausted in vain to repeople it; the poison of money and of pleasure having enervated the species, the world became nearly a desert and appeared likely every day to advance nearer to desolation by the continual wars which were kindled on our continent, from the ambition of extending its power to foreign lands.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The holy man was fearful lest so delicious an abode should enervate the minds of his disciples, that the vigor of their intellect, so requisite for penitential reflections, should become relaxed when surrounded by objects so pleasant to the senses; and lest that which inspired gladsomeness should make them lose the seriousness necessary in prayer, and deprive them of the spiritual delight which is felt therein.
The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi
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Ward, so weakened a body already 'enervate' and emaciated, that at first the patient "was thought to be falling into the agonies of death.
Henry Fielding: a Memoir
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But after a few months of feeling enervated I realized that contrary to all my expectations I was happy.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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As secular identity becomes enervated, incoherent, and perplexed, as we grow tired and unstrung by self-doubt, hating them offers odd comfort.
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Without this, poetry is enervated and becomes merely the record of consciousness no more compelling than yesterday's sports statistics.
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In short, anything that enervates, or saps energy, can exacerbate any tendencies we may have toward disease.
Influenza shots? No thank you!
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OT will someone tell Fiona Miller (on Daily Politics now) to look up the word "enervate" and use it correctly in future.
Guy Fawkes' blog
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Herodian, l.v. p. 192.] 59 Hierocles enjoyed that honor; but he would have been supplanted by one Zoticus, had he not contrived, by a potion, to enervate the powers of his rival, who, being found on trial unequal to his reputation, was driven with ignominy from the palace.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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You leave the theatre drained and enervated, wishing you could get that time back, 15 minutes of awesome explosions notwithstanding.
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Presumably, if nothing else, our fear of hell purports to enervate good behavior.
Menachem Wecker: With Ramadan And Jewish High Holidays Looming, We Should Talk About Hell
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Hemingway's genius would be squandered, enervated by celebrity, and he would die an alcoholic and a suicide.
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Shall we say this war consumes the heart and enervates the soul?
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There were some in the Corinthian Church who had become thus enervated and forceless, and the Apostle seeks to stir them up into a more vigorous life.
Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers
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The Kerry-Lieberman energy bill would enervate America.
Generation Gap
