Enervate
['enəveɪt] or ['ɛnɚvet]
Definition
(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
(a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
Edited by Gillian
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Unnerve, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, paralyze, break, deprive of force or strength, render feeble.
Inputed by Hubert
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Weaken, enfeeble, unnerve, deteriorate, debilitate, relax, unstring, unhinge
ANT:Strengthen, brace, invigorate, harden, nerve
Typist: Robbie
Definition
v.t. to deprive of nerve strength or courage: to weaken.—adj. weakened: spiritless.—n. Enervā′tion.—adj. Ener′vative.—v.t. Enerve′ (obs.) to enervate.
Editor: Mamie
Examples
- A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- One cannot resist speculation as to what might have happened to Edison himself and to the development of electricity had he made this proposed plunge into the enervating tropics. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I awoke next morning with courage revived and spirits refreshed: physical debility no longer enervated my judgment; my mind felt prompt and clear. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
Inputed by Cyrus