Enervate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations” ( Henry David Thoreau). See Synonyms at deplete.
  • v. Medicine To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.
  • adj. Deprived of strength; debilitated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
  • v. To weaken morally or mentally.
  • v. To unnerve or faze.
  • v. To partially or completely remove a nerve.
  • adj. Made feeble; weakened.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
  • adj. Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; weaken; render feeble: as, idleness and voluptuous indulgences enervate the body.
  • Figuratively, to deprive of force or applicability; render ineffective; refute.
  • To cut the nerves of: as, to enervate a horse.
  • Synonyms To enfeeble, unnerve, debilitate, paralyze, unstring, relax.
  • Weakened; weak; enervated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. weaken mentally or morally
  • v. disturb the composure of
  • Antonym
    strengthen    energize    bolster   
    Verb Form
    enervated    enervates    enervating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    weaken   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unnerve    enfeeble    weaken    debilitate    weakened    weak    devitalize    paralyze    soften    emasculate   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts