'Enervate' definitions:
Definition of 'enervate'
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Definition of 'Enervate'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. --Dryden.
- Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Enervate'
From: GCIDE
- Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'enervate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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