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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abate, afflict, attenuate, beat, blunt, break, burn out, castrate, cramp, cripple, damp, dampen, deaden, debilitate, defeat, demasculinize, dematerialize, derange, desex, desexualize, devitalize, disable, disembody, disorder, do in, do up, drain, dull, effeminize, emasculate, enfeeble, etherealize, etiolate, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fag, fag out, fatigue, flag, frazzle, gruel, harass, hospitalize, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, jade, knock out, knock up, lay low, lay up, mitigate, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary, poop, poop out, prostrate, rarefy, rattle, reduce, sap, shake, shake up, sicken, soften up, spiritualize, sterilize, strain, subtilize, tire, tire out, tire to death, tucker, unbrace, undermine, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, use up, weaken, wear, wear down, wear on, wear out, weary, wilt, wind
Dictionary Results for enervate:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
enervate
    v 1: weaken mentally or morally
    2: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate,
       unsettle]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Enervating.] [L. enervatus, p. p. of enervare, fr.
   enervis nerveless, weak; e out + nervus nerve. See Nerve.]
   To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render
   feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral
   powers of.
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         A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. --Macaulay.
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         And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.      --Dryden.

   Syn: To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Enervate \E*ner"vate\, a. [L. enervatus, p. p.]
   Weakened; weak; without strength of force. --Pope.
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