Enervated
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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