Definition of Enervate

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enervate
v. weaken, make weak, deprive of mental or physical vigor

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Enervate Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
  
(a.)
Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
  

WordNet 2.0
enervate

Verb
1. weaken mentally or morally
(hypernym) weaken
(derivation) debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion
2. disturb the composure of
(synonym) faze, unnerve, unsettle
(hypernym) upset, discompose, untune, disconcert, discomfit
(hyponym) unman

Anagram
enervate
    venerate

GLOSSARY OF ESOTERIC WORDS
enervate
1. To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to render feeble; to weaken. 2. To reduce the moral or mental vigor of.

eg.Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.(E.M.CIORAN)

hEnglish - advanced version
enervate

enervate
\e*ner"vate\ (?), a. [l. enervatus, p. p.] weakened; weak; without strength of force.
enervate
\e*ner"vate\ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. enervated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. enervating.] [l. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr. enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. see nerve.] to deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. a man enervated by licentiousness. and rhyme began t' enervate poetry.


for Vocabulary Exams of KPDS, YDS,UDS (in Turkey); and SAT in America
enervate
To render ineffective or inoperative.

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Dadnwyfo
Dadnwyfo = v. to enervate


Enervate Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

The Harry Potter Glossary
Enervate
A spell to revive someone who is stunned.