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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Enervate

E-nẽr'vate, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. enervatus, p. p. of enervare.] Weakened; weak; without strength or force. Pope.

E-nẽr'vāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. ENERVATED; p. pr. & vb. n. ENERVATING.] [Lat. enervare, enervatum, from enervis, nerveless, weak, from e, out, and nervus, nerve; Fr. énerver, Sp. enervar, It. enervare.]

  1. To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to weaken; to render feeble or impotent. “Enervated by licentiousness.” Macaulay.
  2. To cut the nerves of; as, to enervate a horse.

Syn. — To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.