a long, enervating illness
The folds of her scarlet silk gown gave off the enervating smell of poppies.
The air of the place, so fresh in the spring and early summer, was stagnant and enervating now.
Mr Cameron, who is trying to reshape the British state as well as eliminate its structural fiscal deficit by 2015, cannot afford such enervating distractions.
With very few exceptions, all the so-called Socialist and Communist publications that now (1847) circulate in Germany belong to the domain of this foul and enervating literature.
It is a beautiful valley, snug, comfortable, sheltered by the mountains from all the bitter blasts,But it is very enervating
