enervate : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: enervate	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for enervate
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
enervate v weaken mentally or morally disturb the composure of Synonym(s): faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Enervate \Ener"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. --Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate* poetry. --Dryden. Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.