ENERVATE

v. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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.

2.
a.

Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.


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