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 E·ner·vate v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enervated p. pr. & vb. n. Enervating.]  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.

 enervating
      adj : causing debilitation [syn: debilitative, enfeebling, weakening]