(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
(a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
Example Sentences:
(1) In light of the appearance of cyclic enervative episodes, this study suggests limitations to primate models of panic disorder utilizing oral yohimbine.
(2) On the one hand, they are enervated, depleted, losing energy, as shops and restaurants find that their businesses can’t be sustained by the occasional populations of these neighbourhoods.
(3) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
(4) In deprivation-reared subjects, low-dose yohimbine produced reductions in tension and enervation, and increases in "normal" behaviors.
(5) That it developed later than other Southern medical schools has been attributed to multiple factors, among them rural isolation, restricted communication, limited transportation, sparse population, cultural deprivation, and climatologic enervation.
(6) But he missed the chance to be there at the beginning for artist-director Katsuhiro Otomo 's earlier masterpiece – 25 this year – when its enervating hyper-realism left retina burn in the eyes of action fans and film-makers worldwide.
(7) Enervation of the vas deferens and epididymis may be blocked and cause a smaller emission.
(8) David Cameron – whose natural comfort zone still remains talking breezily about the good times and giveaways around the corner – didn't come into politics to preside over an enervating decade of economic pessimism any more than Ed Miliband did to shrink the state.
(9) Conventional approaches using pooled subject data to increase the degree of freedom for statistical inference are enervated by the resultant introduction of intersubject variability.
(10) In 15 patients with acquired polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic recurrent polyneuropathy) the conduction velocity was measured in the peripheral nerves of the upper and lower extremities, the latency of the F wave was determined, and the somatosensory evoked potentials were assessed stimulating the median enerve and posterior tibial nerve.
(11) Response to oral yohimbine differed in several ways from subcutaneous and intravenous sodium lactate infusions, including prominent enervative symptoms and the appearance of sexual arousal.
(12) The majority of patients showed only minor impairment or normal results in the lower segment, which would point to a double or single enervation from the branches of the cervical plexus.
(13) Plannui The sheer enervation felt when surveying the rows of series-linked shows on your DVR planner that you will never have time to watch.
(14) Somuncu is among those who believe the book itself will not take off in terms of sales, describing it as “enervating and boring”, but he is convinced that the fascination for it would be far more muted now, had German authorities – more specifically the Bavarian government, which has held the rights to it – been more open about it.
(15) At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy.
(16) In the normal subjects, yohimbine, at both doses, produced increased tension and enervation and decreased species-typical "normal" behaviors.
(17) Obama’s victories over the last six years aside, this is a familiar spectacle for left-leaning Americans, enough so that the breast-beating is almost as enervating as all of those defeats.
(18) "I can't be held responsible for all that has happened since," she says when I bring this up, her eyes flashing and her enervated east-coast drawl undercut with just a hint of anger.
(19) Yohimbine significantly increased episodes of motoric activation and affective response interspersed with intervals of behavioral enervation.
(20) In addition, three more delimited forms of distress -- feelings of enervation, dysphoria, and sleep disturbances -- show higher levels among the older cohort.
Strengthen
Definition:
(v. t.) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; as, to strengthen a limb, a bridge, an army; to strengthen an obligation; to strengthen authority.
(v. t.) To animate; to encourage; to fix in resolution.
(v. i.) To grow strong or stronger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(2) Now, as the Senate takes up a weakened House bill along with the House's strengthened backdoor-proof amendment, it's time to put focus back on sweeping reform.
(3) In order for the club to grow and sustain its ability to be a competitive force in the Premier League, the board has made a number of decisions which will strengthen the club, support the executive team, manager and his staff and enhance shareholder return.
(4) The former Stoke City manager Pulis had reportedly been left frustrated by the club failing to push through deals for various players he targeted to strengthen the Palace squad.
(5) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(6) Possible explanations of the clinical gains include 1) psychological encouragement, 2) improvements of mechanical efficiency, 3) restoration of cardiovascular fitness, thus breaking a vicous circle of dyspnoea, inactivity and worsening dyspnoea, 4) strengthening of the body musculature, thus reducing the proportion of anaerobic work, 5) biochemical adaptations reducing glycolysis in the active tissues, and 6) indirect responses to such factors as group support, with advice on smoking habits, breathing patterns and bronchial hygiene.
(7) The appointment of the mayor of London's brother, who formally becomes a Cabinet Office minister, is one of a series of moves designed to strengthen the political operation in Downing Street and to patch up the prime minister's frayed links with the Conservative party.
(8) It added that the crisis had highlighted significant weaknesses in financial regulation, with further measures needed to strengthen supervision.
(9) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
(10) These observations further strengthen our model for congenital transmission of T. pallidum during pregnancy.
(11) Discussions will cover international efforts to strengthen Ukraine's economy and energy security and help with constitutional reforms, including next month's presidential election.
(12) The induction of donor-type RCS during the GVHR strengthens the concept of lymphomagenesis through persistent stimulation with antigen(s).
(13) Progress in orthognathic surgery as well as the special methods now available for proper setting of osteotomic segments, diagnostic aids and therapeutic possibilities of orthodontics have considerably strengthened the case today for giving adults a combined treatment.
(14) Strengthening of the Montreal Protocol is recently being negotiated in London in 1990 in order to achieve further reductions of the regulated CFCs and to include possibly more substances.
(15) Results with the model strengthen the hypothesis that tetraethylammonium (TEA) acts on both the maximum potassium conductance (gK) and the mechanism of sodium conductance inactivation (Tauh) to lengthen the action potential as observed on the Ranvier node (fig.
(16) "At first sight, today's announcement of an independent commissioner is a missed opportunity to strengthen our co-ordinated approach to addressing these very serious matters.
(17) This relationship was strengthened when the results obtained in this study were combined with those from a previous study which examined the relationship between SCE induction and cell survival in Chinese hamster ovary cells exposed to simple alkylating agents.
(18) Any ruling from the court that strengthens suspicions that Zardari may have had a hand in the memo could be politically damaging to him.
(19) "The government will have a policy of zero tolerance for violence against women, and will strengthen the criminal justice system for its effective implementation," the president told a joint sitting of parliament.
(20) With the first prosecutions under way in the UK and Guinea-Bissau , an increased focus on strengthening the law in Kenya , and a rare conviction in Uganda , positive moves are being made in several countries to implement laws that ban female genital mutilation (FGM).