Evertuate

Quick meaning: Evertuate is a verb meaning (obsolete, transitive) To sap the strength of.

Meaning

(obsolete, transitive) To sap the strength of.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To strive (to do something, towards something).

Example Sentences

Delilahs, that by the Chimistry of look and lap, evirtuate Sampsons love and strength

1662, William Penn et al., The Spiritual Bee, Oxford: Edward & John Forrest, Chapter 24, p. 63, glorying and boasting, correcteth, evirtuateth and rendereth ineffectual all motions or endeavours of conscience from within

For besides that the Senate had been now long over-awed, and corrupted many wayes by the acts of the Court; we know the Tributa Comitia are also totally depraved, and evirtuated by being called out of the field into the palace […]

1647, Roger Corbet, Articles of Impeachment, Agreed upon by the Army under Command of His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax, London: George Whiting, p. 2, The difficultie of kindling on both sides this uniting and evertuating ardour proceeds principally from three causes […]

Word Forms

• evertuates
• evertuating
• evertuated

Synonyms for evertuate

Depending on context, synonyms include enervate, weaken.

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