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Word Meanings - ENERVATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

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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.

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  • PROSTRATE
    Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot.
  • RELENT
    1. To become less rigid or hard; to yield; to dissolve; to melt; to deliquesce. He stirred the coals till relente gan The wax again the fire. Chaucer. placed in a cellar will . . . begin to relent. Boyle. When opening buds salute the welcome day,
  • ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
    1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
  • DILUTENESS
    The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • RELAXANT
    A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
  • REMIT
    1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
  • ABATER
    One who, or that which, abates.
  • PARALYZE
    1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts.
  • BENUMBED
    Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n.
  • ABATE
    1. To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as, pain abates, a storm abates. The fury of Glengarry . . . rapidly abated. Macaulay. 2. To be defeated, or come to naught; to fall through; to fail; as, a writ abates. To abate
  • IMPAIRMENT
    The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
  • RELAXATIVE
    Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
  • CONSTRAINTIVE
    Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
  • IMPAIRER
    One who, or that which, impairs.
  • FETTERLESS
    Free from fetters. Marston.
  • ENFEEBLER
    One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
  • DIVERTING
    Amusing; entertaining. -- Di*vert"ing*ly, adv. -- Di*vert"ing*ness, n.
  • SHACKLE
    1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
  • DEADEN
    Etym: 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its
  • SUPREMITY
    Supremacy. Fuller.
  • CONFINER
    One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • EREMITE
    A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
  • HEREMITICAL
    Of or pertaining to a hermit; solitary; secluded from society. Pope.
  • INDIVERTIBLE
    Not to be diverted or turned aside. Lamb.

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