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enervate vt. 使衰弱
a. 衰弱的,无力的 使衰弱衰弱的,无力的 enervate v 1: weaken mentally or morally 2: disturb the composure of [ synonym: { faze}, { unnerve}, { enervate}, { unsettle}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. -- Dryden. Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate. [ 1913 Webster]
Enervate \ E* ner" vate\, a. [ L. enervatus, p. p.] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 91 Moby Thesaurus words for " enervate": abate, afflict, attenuate, beat, blunt, break, burn out, castrate, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, defeat, demasculinize, dematerialize, derange, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, disembody, disorder, do in, do up, drain, dull, effeminize, emasculate, enfeeble, etherealize, etiolate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, frazzle, gruel, harass, hospitalize, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, jade, knock out, knock up, lay low, lay up, mitigate, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, poop, poop out, prostrate, rarefy, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, sicken, soften up, spiritualize, sterilize, strain, subtilize, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, use up, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wilt, wind
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