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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : verb en-er-veyt; adjective ih-nur-vit |
| Phonetic Transcription : verb ˈɛn ərˌveɪt; adjective ɪˈnɜr vɪt |
Definition of enervate
Origin :- c.1600, from Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare "to weaken" (see enervation). Related: Ennervated; ennervating.
- verb tire, wear out
- Why, indeed, plunge into dissipations which enervate the body and dull the brain?
- Extract from : « Devil Stories » by Various
- He had learned the art from them, and London had scarce had time as yet to enervate him.
- Extract from : « The Late Tenant » by Louis Tracy
- She was careful not to enervate him by luxury or weak indulgence.
- Extract from : « De La Salle Fifth Reader » by Brothers of the Christian Schools
- Shun all that may enervate or diminish your youthful energies.
- Extract from : « Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826 Vol. 2 » by Lady Wallace
- Then as they are almost all fighting men (tata toa) they are restricted that they may not weaken or enervate themselves.
- Extract from : « A Voyage to the South Sea » by William Bligh
- It is thought to enervate and corrupt by means of a luxurious excitement, purely fictitious and temporary.
- Extract from : « On the Vice of Novel Reading. » by Young E. Allison
- Do not some of them tend to enervate the authority evidently designed thus to regulate and controul?
- Extract from : « Pamphlets On The Constitution Of The United States » by Various
- Yet it seems to me that self-abuse in excess must be injurious to health, for it must weaken and enervate.
- Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
- A low hot wind began to rise, and fan his cheek with pestiferous kisses, and enervate his frame with its poisonous embrace.
- Extract from : « Alroy » by Benjamin Disraeli
- The ease and plenty which they enjoy, enervate their manners, and destroy all vigour both of body and mind.
- Extract from : « The History of Sandford and Merton » by Thomas Day
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