Meaning & use
Enervating
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Causing a feeling of physical or mental weakness; draining of energy or vitality.
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The enervating heat of midday made it impossible to work outdoors.
Months of enervating stress had left her exhausted.
A note on using this word
Despite sounding like it should mean 'energizing,' enervating means the opposite; it comes from Latin enervare, 'to remove the nerve or sinew from.'
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invigoratingenergizing
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