I love the song of the mockingbird, the bird of four hundred voices. I love the color of jade, and the enervating perfume of flowers, but most of all, I love my brother, Man.
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Enervating
Synonyms for "enervating" (22 found)
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Closest matches (5)
Verb(4 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (6)
Verb(5 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (11)
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10 entriesdebilitate organsdebilitatingdrain moraledrain staminaemotionally drainingerode efficiencyfatigue musclesfatiguingmorally drainingsap strength
Collocations
8 entriesenervating atmosphereenervating climateenervating conditionsenervating debateenervating effectenervating environmentenervating heatenervating workload
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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.
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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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Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
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