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
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
enervate
v 1: weaken mentally or morally
2: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, unsettle]
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
faze, unnerve, unsettle
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