Enervate vs. Innervate — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Enervate and Innervate
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Enervate
Make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality
Enervating heat
Innervate
Supply (an organ or other body part) with nerves.
Enervate
Lacking in energy or vitality
The enervate slightness of his frail form
Innervate
To supply (an organ or a body part) with nerves.
Enervate
To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
"the luxury which enervates and destroys nations" (Henry David Thoreau).
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Innervate
To stimulate (a nerve, muscle, or body part) to action.
Enervate
(Medicine) To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.
Innervate
To supply (an organ or part of the body) with nerves.
Enervate
Deprived of strength; debilitated.
Innervate
Synonym of innerve.
Enervate
(transitive) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.
Innervate
To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.
Enervate
(transitive) To weaken morally or mentally.
Innervate
Supply nerves to (some organ or body part)
Enervate
(medicine) To partially or completely remove a nerve.
Innervate
Stimulate to action;
Innervate a muscle or a nerve
Enervate
Made feeble; weakened.
Enervate
To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
A man . . . enervated by licentiousness.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry.
Enervate
Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
Enervate
Weaken mentally or morally
Enervate
Disturb the composure of
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