Enervate

Definitions: Enervate

Enervate

Verb

1. Weaken mentally or morally.

2. Disturb the composure of.

Date "enervate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Synonyms: Enervate

Synonyms: faze (v), unnerve (v), unsettle (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impotence	Unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix.
Weakness	Render weak; Adjective: weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman; (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enervate

English words defined with "enervate": Disinvigorate ♦ Enervative, Enerve ♦ Unnervate. (references)

Etymologies containing "enervate": Disinvigorate. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	The Pocket Encyclopedia of Aggravation: 101 Things that Annoy, Bother, Chafe, Disturb, Enervate, Frustrate, Grate, Harass, Irk, Jar, Mife, Nettle, Outrage, Peeve, Quassh, Rile, Stress Out, Trouble, Upset, Vex, Worry and X,Y Z You! (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
James Madison	1809-1817	Because attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to go great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Enervate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Enervate" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	50%	2	245,945
Lexical Verb (base form)	50%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enervate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		ligështoj (dispirit, enfeeble, get down), i dobët (anaemic, anemic, bad, cachectic, characterless, cheesy, delicate, Dickey, dicky, dim, Dotty, faint, fainting, feeble, flabby, flaccid, gone, ill-conditioned, impaired, indolent, inferior, infirm, insubstantial, knock kneed, lame, lamentable, languid, languorous, lax, lean, low, meager, meagre, mean, measly, milk and water, nerveless, pale, pimping, pithless, poky, poor, puny, queasy, reckling, remiss, remote, rotten, rundown, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrofulous, seared, shoddy, skinny, slack, sleazy, slender, slight, slim, soft, spare, squeamish, tender, thin, third rate, Twiggy, weak, weakly, woozy), dobësoj (attenuate, debilitate, depauperate, depress, devitalize, dilute, dim, diminish, dull, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, use up, weaken). (various references)

Arabic		‏وهن (asthenia, attenuate, attenuation, damp, dampen, debilitate, debility, decay, discouragement, distemper, droop, enfeeble, extenuate, feebleness, imitators, infirmity, invalidate, languish, languishment, languor, pall, relax, sap, shrivel, sickliness, thin, weak spot, weaken, weaklings), ‏واهن (atonal, atonic, crazy, doddery, effete, feeble, flagging, impotent, infirm, invalidity, lackadaisical, languid, languorous, lower, nerveless, powerless, prostrate, rusty, shrivelled, sickly, sluggish, spiritless, stunted, tender, weak, weakling, weakly, wimp), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, little, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian		отпуснат (flabby, flaccid, flagging, floppy, indolent, lackadaisical, languid, lax, limp, loose, lymphatic, nerveless, sinewless, slack, soft, soppy, spiritless, untight), омаломощявам (debilitate, overpower), омаломощен, обезсилвам (enfeeble, invalidate, negate, nullify), обезсилен, изтощен (all in, bushed, down and out, effete, emaciated, exhausted, gaunt, jaded, limp, perished, played out, prostrate, run down, screwy, shagged out, shot, sick, spent, used up, weary, whacked). (various references)

Czech		zeslabit (become weak, depress, diminish, impair, reduce, weaken), vyèerpat (deplete, do up, drain, exhaust, fatigue, suck up, tire out, use up, wear, work out). (various references)

Farsi		ناتوان کردن (Debilitate, Disable, Invalid), سست کردن (Discourage, Inactivate, Loosen, Slacken, Weaken), جسماضعیف کردن , بی حال کردن , بی اثرکردن (Counteract, Deactivate, Nullify, Undo, Void), بی رگ کردن . (various references)

French		maigre, débiliter (enfeeble), amollir (enfeeble), affaiblir, affaibli. (various references)

German		entnerven (unnerve). (various references)

Greek		εκνευρίζω (irritate, unnerve), αποχαυνώνω (besot, fuddle). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�"חליש (abate, attenuate, deaden, detach, enfeeble, impair, slacken, weaken, wear down). (various references)

Hungarian		enervált, elerőtlenedett (effete). (various references)

Indonesian		melemahkan (debilitate, enfeeble, weaken), lembek (soft), lemah (effete, foible, puny, thin, weak). (various references)

Italian		snervare (unnerve). (various references)

Manx		neuvreeaghey (enfeebling), neuvioyraghey (benumb, benumbing, disable). (various references)

Pig Latin		enervateay

Portuguese		enfraquecer (abate, attenuate, decay, diminish, extenuate, fade, fail, faint, flag, flatten, impair, impoverish, jade, languish, peak, pine, rust, sap, slacken, undermine, waste, weaken), enervar (fidget, fluster, rile, unnerve), enervado (overstrung), fraco (adynamic, crank, deedless, defective, failing, faint, feckless, feeble minded, flabby, flaccid, flimsy, frail, infirm, lank, light, little, low, milk and water, pimping, pony, puny, reckling, scrannel, shaky, sickly, slight, spineless, spiritless, watery, weak, weak-kneed, weakly, wishy washy), fonte de energia (power plant, prime mover, source of energy), débil (broken, failure, faint, feeble, feebleminded, fragile, frail, infirm, languid, light, pony, puny, reckling, reedy, remote, scrannel, shaky, sickly, spiritless, weak, weakly), amolecer (maceration, rait, ret, season, soften). (various references)

Romanian		vlãguit (drowsy, exhausted), vlãgui (emaciate, exhaust, sap), toropit, toropi, ofili (die, dry, sear, wilt, wither), moleşit (drooping, drowsy, dull, flabby, flaccid, tired, weak), moleşi (emasculate, soften, weaken). (various references)

Russian		расслаблять (debilitate, enfeeble, relax, unbrace). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oslabljen (atonic, decrepit, relieved), oslabiti (become weak, debilitate, devitalize, enfeeble, go to the dogs, lose weight, relax, relieve, unfix, weaken). (various references)

Spanish		enervar (unnerve), enervado (nerveless), hacer enervado. (various references)

Swedish		försvaga (attenuate, bring low, debilitate, depress, devitalize, dilute, diminish, emasculate, enfeeble, impair, reduce, sap, unnerve, weaken). (various references)

Thai		ทำให้ร่างกายอ่อนแอ. (various references)

Turkish		zayıflatmak (cripple, damp down, debilitate, emaciate, emasculate, evirate, fade, impair, impoverish, reduce, slim, soften, thin down, thin of, thin out, weaken, wear away, wear down), moralini bozmak (demoralize, depress, dispirit), kuvvetten düşürmek (castrate, enfeeble), gevşetmek (ease, let go, limber up, loosen, loosen up, relax, release, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, start, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, ungird, unloose, unstring), cesaretini kırmak (be a disincentive to, dash, daunt, demoralize, discourage, dishearten, dispirit, screw up one's courage, tame, unman, unnerve). (various references)

Ukranian		розслабляти (overcome, relax), розслаблений (creeping, dissolute), знесилювати (enfeeble, harass), безвільний (floppy, weak-headed), позбавляти мужності (unman). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	castro, effeminati, effeminatis, effeminatorum, effeminatos, emollitum. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enervate": enervated, enervates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "enervate": denervate. (additional references)
	Words containing "enervate": denervated, denervates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enervate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emervate, Enerdale, ennervate, ennorath, enverate, inerate, inervate, reinnervate, Venavae. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: venerate.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-n-r-t-v"
	-1 letter: nervate, veteran.
	-2 letters: entera, entree, eterne, evener, neater, retene, tavern, teener, veneer, venter.
	-3 letters: antre, arete, avert, eaten, eater, enate, enter, event, evert, nerve, never, ranee, raven, reave, reeve, rente, revet, terne, trave, treen, veena, venae.
	-4 letters: ante, aver, earn, eave, erne, etna, even, ever, nave, near, neat, neve, rant, rate, rave, rent, rete, tare, tarn, tear, teen, tern, tree, vane, veer, vena, vent, vera, vert.
	-5 letters: ane, ant, are, art, ate, ave, ear, eat, era, ere, ern, eta, eve, nae, nee, net, ran, rat, ree, ret, rev, tae, tan, tar, tav, tea, tee, ten, van, var, vat, vee, vet.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-n-r-t-v"
	+1 letter: denervate, enervated, enervates, overeaten, venerated, venerates.
	+2 letters: advertence, anteverted, denervated, denervates, generative, interleave, interweave, inveterate, overbeaten, rejuvenate, revealment.
	+3 letters: advertences, bereavement, depravement, enumerative, exonerative, interleaved, interleaves, interweaved, interweaves, overearnest, penetrative, preventable, reinnervate, rejuvenated, rejuvenates, revealments, reverberant, reverential.
	+4 letters: advertencies, aggrievement, bereavements, cantilevered, creativeness, degenerative, depravements, fermentative, inadvertence, invertebrate, inveteracies, inveterately, peradventure, presentative, preventative, reactiveness, regenerative, reinnervated, reinnervates, remunerative, revegetating, revegetation, seronegative, veterinaries.
	+5 letters: adventuresome, adventuresses, advertisement, advertizement, aggrievements, assertiveness, confederative, determinative, frequentative, inadvertences, invertebrates, operativeness, outmaneuvered, overanxieties, overexuberant, overstatement, overtreatment, peradventures, perseverating, perseveration, preventatives, privatenesses, reintegrative, reinvestigate, revegetations, reverberantly, reverberating, reverberation, reverentially, veritableness, versatileness.
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