enervate

enervate
    v 1: weaken mentally or morally
    2: disturb the composure of [syn: {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.
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         A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
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         And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.      --Dryden.

   Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
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Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
   Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
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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