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Enervate
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
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. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.
Synonyms: weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.