| | enervate | (เอน'เนอเวท) vt. ตัดกำลัง, ทำให้อ่อนกำลัง -adj. ซึ่งอ่อนกำลัง., See also: enervation n. ดูenervate enervative adj. ดูenervate enervator n. ดูenervate | | enervated | (เอน'เนอเวทิด) adj. ไร้พลังงาน, หมดกำลัง, อ่อนเปลี้ยเพลียแรง, Syn. weak |
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| | enervate | (vt) ทำให้อ่อนเปลี้ย, ทำให้เพลีย, ทำให้อ่อนแอ, ตัดกำลัง |
| | | | Enervate | 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. [ 1913 Webster ] A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Enervate | a. [ L. enervatus, p. p. ] Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] | | enervated | adj. lacking strength or vigor.
Syn. -- adynamic, asthenic, debilitated. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | enervating | adj. causing the loss of strength or vigor.
Syn. -- debilitative, enfeebling, weakening. [ WordNet 1.5 ] | | Enervation | n. [ L. enervatio: cf. F. énervation. ] 1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Enervative | a. Having power, or a tendency, to enervate; weakening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] |
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