Definition of "enervates" [enervates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of enervate. (verb)

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• "The all-pervasive micro-regulatory state "enervates," but nicely, gradually, so after a while you don't even notice."
• "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."
• "Vampires represent the fear of a shadowy cabal which parasitises and enervates the common man."