About The Word Enervate
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Enervate
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What's The Definition Of Enervate?
[v] weaken mentally or morally
[v] disturb the composure of Synonyms | Synonyms for Enervate: faze | unnerve | unsettle Related Terms | Find terms related to Enervate: abate | afflict | attenuate | beat | blunt | break | burn out | castrate | cramp | cripple | damp | dampen | deaden | debilitate | defeat | demasculinize | dematerialize | derange | desex | desexualize | devitalize | disable | disembody | disorder | do in | do up | drain | dull | effeminize | emasculate | enfeeble | etherealize | etiolate | eviscerate | exhaust | extenuate | fag | fag out | fatigue | flag | frazzle | gruel | harass | hospitalize | incapacitate | indispose | invalid | jade | knock out | knock up | lay low | lay up | mitigate | overfatigue | overstrain | overtire | overweary | poop | poop out | prostrate | rarefy | rattle | reduce | sap | shake | shake up | sicken | soften up | spiritualize | sterilize | strain | subtilize | tire | tire out | tire to death | tucker | unbrace | undermine | unman | unnerve | unstrengthen | unstring | use up | weaken | wear | wear down | wear on | wear out | weary | wilt | wind See Also | discomfit | discompose | disconcert | unman | untune | upset | weaken Enervate In Webster's Dictionary \E*ner"vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enervated}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Enervating}.] [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr.
enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See {Nerve}.]
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render
feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral
powers of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. --Dryden.
Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
\E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope. |
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