enervate

1. 1.

   weaken mentally or morally

   Broaderweaken
2. 2.

   disturb the composure of

   Synonymsfazeunnerveunsettle

   Broaderupset

   Narrowerunman

Other forms of enervate

past tense

enervated·

present participle

enervating·

third person

enervates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enervate

What does enervate mean?

enervate means "weaken mentally or morally". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enervate?

enervate has 3 syllables: e-ner-vate. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for enervate?

Close synonyms include faze, unnerve, unsettle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enervate a common word?

enervate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.