1. 1令人疲憊無力的

    Something enervating makes you feel tired and weak while it is happening. Hot, heavy weather is the classic example; a long speech or a slow, airless room can be enervating too. It is the -ing adjective from , still rather formal. You use it of the cause, not of the worn-out person: the heat is enervating; the people are . Though actually, it is not a compliment dressed up as a long word — it never means lively or .

組成The -ing form of enervate, used as an adjective.

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enervatingadj

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    That enervates.

    • No enervating arts refined To slumber lull'd his heaven-born might; No weak indulgence warp'd thy mind, To cloud a hero's path of light.
    • I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

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