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Enervate

verb
(past & past part. enervated; pres. part. enervating)
1.
Weaken mentally or morally.
2.
Disturb the composure of.  Synonyms: faze, unnerve, unsettle.





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"Enervate" Quotes from Famous Books



... real landscape which I was confronting; the sun burnt my visage, but I heeded it not; and I believe that I should have remained till night, buried in these reveries, which, I confess, only served to enervate the mind, and steal many a minute which might be most profitably employed, had not the report of the gun of a fowler in the valley, which awakened the echoes of the woods, hills, and ruins, caused me to start on my feet, and remember that I had to proceed three leagues before ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
... wide-spread empire succeeded Astyages, son of the fortunate Cyaxares. But it is the usual character of a conquering tribe to adopt the habits and be corrupted by the vices of the subdued nations among which the invaders settle; and the peaceful reign of Astyages sufficed to enervate that vigilant and warlike spirit in the victor race, by which alone the vast empires of the East can be preserved from their natural tendency to decay. The Persians, subdued by the grandsire of Astyages, seized the occasion to revolt. Among them rose up a native ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Words linked to "Enervate" :   enervation, discompose, disconcert, untune, weaken, unman, upset, discomfit


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