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- Dictionaryenervated/ˈɛnəveɪtɪd/
adjective
- 1. drained of energy or vitality: "Daniel felt too enervated to resist"
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to make someone feel weak and without energy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. downtoner. dull. ease. emasculation. enervatingly. fade. hedge. melt. relieve. tottering. turn to jelly idiom. undimmed. unsubdued. See more results » Examples from literature.
enervate suggests a gradual physical or moral weakening (as through luxury or indolence) until one is too feeble to make an effort. a nation's youth enervated by affluence and leisure. unman implies a loss of manly vigor, fortitude, or spirit. a soldier unmanned by the terrors of battle.
ENERVATED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of enervate 2. to make someone feel weak and without energy. Learn more.
When something enervates you, it does more than get on your nerves; it brings you down. Definitions of enervate. verb. weaken physically, mentally, or morally. see more. verb. disturb the composure of. synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle. see more.
enervate in British English. verb (ˈɛnəˌveɪt ) 1. (transitive) to deprive of strength or vitality; weaken physically or mentally; debilitate. adjective (ɪˈnɜːvɪt ) 2. deprived of strength or vitality; weakened. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers.
to make someone feel weak and without energy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Becoming and making less strong. abatement. adulterant. adulterated. downtoner. dull. ease. emasculation. enervatingly. fade. hedge. melt. relieve. tottering. turn to jelly idiom. undimmed. unsubdued. See more results » Examples from literature.
Definition of enervate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
en·er·vate. (ĕn′ər-vāt′) tr.v. en·er·vat·ed, en·er·vat·ing, en·er·vates. 1. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau). 2. Medicine To remove a nerve or part of a nerve. adj. (ĭ-nûr′vĭt) Deprived of strength; debilitated.
1. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: "the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau). 2. Medicine To remove a nerve or part of a nerve. adj. (ĭ-nûr′vĭt) Deprived of strength; debilitated. [Latin ēnervāre, ēnervāt- : ē-, ex-, ex- + nervus, sinew; see (s)neəu- in Indo-European roots.] en′er·va′tion n.
Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the adjective enervated mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the adjective enervated. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence. Entry status.
