Definition of enervate Enervate
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We found 11 definitions of enervate from 6 different sources.
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What does enervate mean?
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| enervate - weaken mentally or morally | ||
| weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| enervate - disturb the composure of | ||
| faze, unnerve, unsettle | ||
| discomfit, discompose, disconcert, untune, upset cause to be out of tune; "Don't untune that string!" | ||
| unman cause to lose one's nerve; "an unmanning experience" | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- enervate (v. t.)
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. - enervate (a.)
Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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enervate
To weaken or reduce in force, intensity, effect, quantity.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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enervate
en-ėr′vāt, 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. [L. enervāre, -ātum—e, out of, nervus, a nerve.]
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🔤- enervate, verb, present, 1st person singular of enervate (infinitive).
- enervate, verb (infinitive).
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