Definitions for enervates

enervates en·er·vate

Spelling: [verb en-er-veyt; adjective ih-nur-vit]
IPA: /verb ˈɛn ərˌveɪt; adjective ɪˈnɜr vɪt/

Enervates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 403 anagrams from letters in enervates (aeeenrstv).

Definitions for enervates

adjective

  1. enervated.

verb (used with object)

  1. to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken. Synonyms: enfeeble, debilitate, sap, exhaust.

Origin of enervates

1595-1605; Latin ēnervātus weakened (past participle of ēnervāre) equivalent to ē- e-1 + nerv(us) sinew (see nerve) + -ātus

Examples for enervates

Why, indeed, plunge into dissipations which enervate the body and dull the brain?

A low hot wind began to rise, and fan his cheek with pestiferous kisses, and enervate his frame with its poisonous embrace.

It is thought to enervate and corrupt by means of a luxurious excitement, purely fictitious and temporary.

Then as they are almost all fighting men (tata toa) they are restricted that they may not weaken or enervate themselves.

She was careful not to enervate him by luxury or weak indulgence.

He had learned the art from them, and London had scarce had time as yet to enervate him.

Shun all that may enervate or diminish your youthful energies.

Do not some of them tend to enervate the authority evidently designed thus to regulate and controul?

Yet it seems to me that self-abuse in excess must be injurious to health, for it must weaken and enervate.

The ease and plenty which they enjoy, enervate their manners, and destroy all vigour both of body and mind.

Word Value for enervates
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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