Enervate \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.
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A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
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And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. --Dryden.
Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
enervated \enervated\ adj.
lacking strength or vigor.
Syn: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
enervated
adj : lacking strength or vigor [syn: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated]
WordNet (r) 2.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "enervated":
apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bored, burned-out,
cachectic, castrated, dead, debilitated, decadent, degenerate,
demasculinized, deteriorated, devil, devitalized, disabled, dopey,
dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effeminized,
effete, emasculate, emasculated, enfant terrible, enfeebled,
eunuchized, eviscerated, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, failing,
faint, fainting, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flagging,
footsore, frail, frazzled, gelded, good and tired, healthless,
heavy, hebetudinous, in poor health, inanimate, incapacitated,
inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing,
languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limb, limp, listless,
lumpish, lustless, marrowless, mischief, moribund, nerveless, numb,
pale, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pithless, played out, pooped,
rapscallion, rascal, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health,
rogue, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapped, sated, scalawag,
seedy, sickly, sinewless, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spent,
spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tired,
tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved,
unrefreshed, unrestored, unsexed, unsound, used up, valetudinarian,
valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, villain, wan, wasted,
way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful,
weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn,
wilting, with low resistance, world-weary, worn, worn-down,
worn-out
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
adynamic, asthenic, debilitated
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