[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENERVATE. lit. and fig.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Surv. Leviath. (1676), 277. The method that must be taken towards the enervating those high pretences.
1751. Chambers, Cycl., Enervating, the act of destroying the force, use, or office, of the nerves.
