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ENERVATE

Dictionary entry overview: What does enervate mean?

• ENERVATE (verb)
The verb ENERVATE has 2 senses:

1. weaken mentally or morally
2. disturb the composure of

Familiarity information: ENERVATE used as a verb is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ENERVATE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Weaken mentally or morally

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "enervate" is one way to...):

weaken (lessen the strength of)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Disturb the composure of

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

faze; unnerve; unsettle; enervate

Hypernyms (to "enervate" is one way to...):

discomfit; discompose; disconcert; untune; upset (cause to lose one's composure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "enervate"):

unman (cause to lose one's nerve)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sentence example:

The bad news will enervate him

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