enervate

  • 11enervate / innervate —    Innervate means to supply with nerves or vitality : The therapist innervated the shoulders with massage.    Enervate is to weaken or destroy the vitality of: The negative attitude enervated her enthusiasm …

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  • 12enervate / innervate —    Innervate means to supply with nerves or vitality : The therapist innervated the shoulders with massage.    Enervate is to weaken or destroy the vitality of: The negative attitude enervated her enthusiasm …

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  • 13enervate — I. adjective Date: 1603 lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor ; enervated II. transitive verb ( vated; vating) Etymology: Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare, from e + nervus sinew more at nerve Date: 1605 …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 14enervate — enervation, n. enervative, adj. enervator, n. v. /en euhr vayt /; adj. /i nerr vit/, v., enervated, enervating, adj. v.t. 1. to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken. adj. 2. enervated …

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  • 15enervate — 1. verb /ˌɛn.ə(ɹ)ˈveɪt,ˈɛn.ə(ɹ).vət/ a) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate. b) To weaken morally or mentally. Syn …

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  • 16enervate — en·er·vate en ər .vāt vt, vat·ed; vat·ing 1) obs to cut the nerves or tendons of 2) to lessen the vitality or strength of <heat enervates people> en·er·va·tion .en ər vā shən n …

    Medical dictionary

  • 17enervate — Synonyms and related words: abate, afflict, attenuate, beat, blunt, break, burn out, castrate, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, defeat, demasculinize, dematerialize, derange, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, disembody,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 18enervate — en|er|vate [ˈenəveıt US ər ] v [T] formal to make you feel tired and weak ▪ The hot sun enervated her to the point of collapse. >enervated adj [not before noun] ▪ David felt too enervated to resist. >enervating adj …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 19enervate — en·er·vate || enɜːveɪt v. weaken, make weak, deprive of mental or physical vigor …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 20enervate — venerate …

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