Definition of "enervated" [enervated]

• Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of enervate. (verb)

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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."
• "The stories are collectively a portrait of a certain kind of enervated sophistication that even the enervated sophisticates yearn to see upended."
• "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."