enervated
- v weaken mentally or morally
- v disturb the composure of
- s lacking strength or vigor
- In stunned silence, the audience watched her run the gamut from regal pride to jaded irony to a kind of enervated despair.
- But his authoritarian bent has scared away investment, enervated the oil sector and helped create a deep economic recession.
- Novel and film are narrated by Jack Burden (Jude Law), scion of the now enervated Louisiana ruling class, who, as a newspaper reporter and then as a gubernatorial lackey, is both .