[responsivevoice]Enervate[/responsivevoice] [ en-er-veyt]
The word of the day is ‘enervate’.
The word is a verb, i.e. it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Yes; the past form of the word is enervated.
It means:
1. Make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.
2. Tire
3. Wear out
1. She was careful not to enervate him by luxury or weak indulgence.
2. Do not some of them tend to enervate the authority evidently designed thus to regulate and control?
3. Shun all that may enervate or diminish your youthful energies.
4. Yet it seems to me that self-abuse in excess must be injurious to health, for it must weaken and enervate.
5. The enervating heat was too much for the foreigners to handle.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
exhaust, tire, fatigue, weary, wear out, devitalize, drain, sap, weaken, make weak, make feeble, enfeeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, put out of action, knock out, do in, take it out of one, shatter, poop, frazzle, wear to a frazzle, fag out, knacker
etc.
Quotation:
I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur Rimbaud
Social Example:
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