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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
enervated \enervated\ adjective lacking strength or vigor.
Syn: adynamic, asthenic, debilitated. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
enervated
adjective: lacking strength or vigor [syn: {adynamic}, {asthenic}, {debilitated}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "enervated": apathetic, ausgespielt, benumbed, blase, bored, burned-out, cachectic, castrated, dead, debilitated, decadent, degenerate, demasculinized, deteriorated, devil, devitalized, disabled, dopey, dormant, drained, drooping, droopy, drugged, dull, effeminized, effete, emasculate, emasculated, enfant terrible, enfeebled, eunuchized, eviscerated, exanimate, exhausted, fagged, failing, faint, fainting, fatigued, feeble, feeling faint, flagging, footsore, frail, frazzled, gelded, good and tired, healthless, heavy, hebetudinous, in poor health, inanimate, incapacitated, inert, infirm, invalid, jaded, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, leaden, lethargic, lifeless, limb, limp, listless, lumpish, lustless, marrowless, mischief, moribund, nerveless, numb, pale, peaked, peaky, phlegmatic, pithless, played out, pooped, rapscallion, rascal, ready to drop, reduced, reduced in health, rogue, run ragged, run-down, sagging, sapped, sated, scalawag, seedy, sickly, sinewless, sleepy, slow, sluggish, somnolent, spent, spiritless, stagnant, stagnating, stultified, supine, tired, tired-winged, toilworn, torpid, unhealthy, unmanned, unnerved, unrefreshed, unrestored, unsexed, unsound, used up, valetudinarian, valetudinary, vegetable, vegetative, villain, wan, wasted, way-weary, wayworn, weak, weakened, weakly, wearied, weariful, weary, weary-footed, weary-laden, weary-winged, weary-worn, wilting, with low resistance, world-weary, worn, worn-down, worn-out
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