Enervate

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  • transitive verb. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of.
  • transitive verb. To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.
  • adjective. Deprived of strength; debilitated.
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
  • adjective. Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
  • verb. To weaken morally or mentally.
  • verb. To unnerve or faze.
  • verb. To partially or completely remove a nerve.
  • adjective. Made feeble; weakened.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. weaken mentally or morally
  • verb. disturb the composure of
  • Word Usage
    "Ward, so weakened a body already 'enervate' and emaciated, that at first the patient "was thought to be falling into the agonies of death.""
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    abate  afflict  attenuate  beat  blunt  
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