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Meanings of enervating in English

Causing debilitation.

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        Examples for "weakening"
        Examples for "weakening"
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        Any weakening of consumer confidence could hit Linden Homes' market in particular.
        Reuters
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        And China is actually one possible weakening link in the BRIC strategy.
        Reuters
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        The results will be a centralisation of power and weakening of democracy.
        The Guardian
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        The industry fears one of the best practices would include weakening encryption.
        Reuters
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        Growth rates across the developed world have been weakening for 50 years.
        The Irish Times
        1
        His mind was naturally feeble; and he had received an enfeebling education.
        Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
        2
        Proportional representation systems in Europe were derided as dangerous and enfeebling.
        The Irish Times
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        The plan proceeds expressly on the idea of enfeebling the regular executory power.
        Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches
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        A weakened Fairtrade portends the enfeebling of the very idea of fair trade.
        The Guardian
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        I hope that Mr. Lincoln will know how to resist these enfeebling influences.
        The Uprising of a Great People / The United States in 1861. to W...
        Usage of enervating in English
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        These are the results of the easy luxury of an enervating high-life.
        A Fascinating Traitor: An Anglo-Indian Story
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        The darkness enfolded her like the enervating caress of a sombre universe.
        The Rescue: A Romance of the Shallows
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        There is something enervating to a northern race in these subtropical climates.
        The Actress in High Life / An Episode in Winter Quarters
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        Besides this, the talk of intervention had an enervating effecton the commandos.
        On Commando
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        It is enervating, and makes one eye swell up and turn blue.
        Remarks
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        For all the enervating heat, he applied himself vigorously to his tasks.
        The Ragged Edge
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        He divides trades into two classes, which he calls energizing and enervating.
        Creative Impulse in Industry: A Proposition for Educators
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        Charity can not help them-thatenervating poison has already done enough mischief.
        The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
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        I answered, 'our democracy is like Parr's Life Pills, enervating and elasticating.
        The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth
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        The world is constantly encroaching here, enervating and corrupting social life.
        Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America
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        The enervating heat was over, and the worrisome insects were gone.
        Virginia: the Old Dominion / As seen from its colonial waterway,...
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        The early days of Jean's servitude had slipped by in an enervating monotony.
        The Aspirations of Jean Servien
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        What comes from the artificial conditions of the city is weakening, enervating, softening.
        Pushing to the Front
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        His big body began to feel with enervating persistency the call of sex.
        Marching Men
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        I felt easier after that, although the room was oppressively hot and enervating.
        The Circular Staircase
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        The sultry warmth of all those moving bodies was enervating, seductive.
        A fugitive truth: an emma fielding mystery
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