Synonyms for enervate
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Weaken — to reduce strength or energy; debilitate
weaken, debilitate, enfeeble, break, relax, exhaust, incapacitate, emasculate, unstring, unbrace, unman, evertuate dated
3. Denervate — to partially or completely remove a nerve
Other
Definitions
- v. 1
To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.
- v. 2
To partially or completely remove a nerve.
- v. 3
To weaken morally or mentally.
Forms
- Past participle
- enervated
e.g. enervated → weakened, debilitated, enfeebled, breaked…
Example sentences
- relax I can't relax for a second when the kids are home.
- weaken This could profoundly weaken the Algerian economy.
- disempower Conflicts are designed to disempower the opposition.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| enervate | steady | |
| relax | rising | |
| weaken | steady | |
| debilitate | rising | |
| enfeeble | steady | |
| disempower | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- faze1
- 5 letters
- break1, relax2, unman
- 6 letters
- weaken2
- 7 letters
- exhaust2, unnerve2, unbrace
- 8 letters
- unsettle3, enfeeble3, unstring
- 9 letters
- evertuate, denervate
- 10 letters
- emasculate4, debilitate4, disempower
- 11 letters
- deinnervate
- 12 letters
- incapacitate5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (relax2 = 2 syllables).