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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -enervat-, *enervat*
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WordNet (3.0)
enervate(v) weaken mentally or morally
enervation(n) lack of vitality, Example: an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue
enervation(n) surgical removal of a nerve

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
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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