enervate

1. v. t. To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. Source: opted

2. a. Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Source: opted

3. v. weaken mentally or morally Source: wordnet

4. v. disturb the composure of Source: wordnet

5. 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. Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope. Source: webster

6. To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to renderfeeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powersof.A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay.And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Source: adambom

7. v:100 v. weaken mentally or morally Source: ecdict

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