(verb) to reduce the mental or moral vigor of / (verb) to lessen the vitality or strength of
give to Ashmore's twilit record an enervating sadness
The effect of such forces is, for his characters, enervating
I always think it means the opposite
a dramatic illustration of the enervation of American journalism in the last couple of decades
I always get this one confused
What is so enervating about Varoufakis is not his radicality but his rational pragmatic modesty--no wonder that many radical members of Syriza accused him of capitulating to the EU.
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