- devitalizing
- devitalize (Amer.) de·vi·tal·ize || ‚diË'vaɪtÉ™laɪz v. drain of vitality, make lifeless (also devitalise)
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enervating, invigorating — Possibly because enervate looks and sounds something like energy, some writers and speakers confuse the meanings of enervating and invigorating, which are almost antonyms. Enervating means weakening, devitalizing, sapping the strength of (a humid … Dictionary of problem words and expressions
draining — Synonyms and related words: aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, breakdown, broaching, clamant, clamorous, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, collapse, coming apart, crack up, cracking, crumbling, crying, cupping, decadent, declining, defecation,… … Moby Thesaurus
exhausting — Synonyms and related words: arduous, burdensome, crippling, debilitating, devitalizing, difficult, draining, enervating, enfeebling, fatiguesome, fatiguing, grinding, grueling, hard, harsh, heavy, killing, laborious, onerous, oppressive,… … Moby Thesaurus
fatiguing — Synonyms and related words: boresome, boring, devitalizing, draining, enervating, enfeebling, exhausting, fatiguesome, grueling, irksome, killing, punishing, sapping, straining, stressful, stupefyingly boring, stuporific, tiresome, tiring,… … Moby Thesaurus
