Enervate

Quick meaning: Enervate is a verb meaning (transitive) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

Meaning

(transitive) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To weaken morally or mentally.
2. (medicine, uncommon) To partially or completely remove a nerve.
3. Made feeble; weakened.

Example Sentences

After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.

Word Forms

• enervates
• enervating
• enervated

Synonyms for enervate

Depending on context, synonyms include debilitate, weaken, denervate, deinnervate, unnerve, unsettle.

Antonyms for enervate

Common opposites include strengthen, revive, bolster.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unnerve, faze, unsettle, weaken, sap, enerve.

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