| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
Synonyms: |
debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary |
| Notes: | energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy') innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate |
Antonyms: |
activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | enervated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | exhausted, worn out |
Synonyms: |
debilitated, deteriorated, devitalized, done in, enfeebled, fatigued, feeble, gone to seed, incapacitated, lackadaisical, languid, languishing, languorous, limp, listless, on the ropes, out of condition, out of gas, out of shape, paralyzed, prostrate, prostrated, run-down, rusty, sapped, soft, spent, spiritless, tired, undermined, unnerved, vitiated, washed out, weak, weakened |
Antonyms: |
activated, active, animated, energized, enthusiastic, invigorated, lively, strengthened |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, cause instability |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, bust, confound, confute, controvert, cow, cripple, declass, degrade, demerit, demoralize, demote, disconfirm, dispirit, disprove, downgrade, enervate, enfeeble, humiliate, impair, impoverish, incapacitate, pauperize, rebut, reduce, refute, ruin, subdue, tame, undermine |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
Antonyms: |
stabilize, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | debilitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken, wear out |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | depress |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deject, make despondent; exhaust |
Synonyms: |
abase, afflict, ail, bear down, beat, beat down, bother, bug*, bum out, cast down, chill*, cow*, damp, dampen, darken, daunt, debase, debilitate, degrade, desolate, devitalize, discourage, dishearten, dismay, dispirit, distress, disturb, drag*, drain, dull, enervate, faze, keep under, lower, mock, mortify, oppress, perturb, press, put down*, reduce, reduce to tears, run down, sadden, sap*, scorn, slow, throw cold water on, torment, trouble, try, turn one off, upset, weaken, weary, weigh down |
Antonyms: |
cheer, comfort, encourage, excite, lift, make happy, stimulate |
| Main Entry: | disable |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | render inoperative; cripple |
Synonyms: |
attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, enable, help, improve |
| Main Entry: | effete |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spoiled, exhausted |
Synonyms: |
burnt out, corrupt, debased, decadent, decayed, declining, decrepit, degenerate, dissipated, dissolute, drained, enervated, enfeebled, far-gone, feeble, immoral, obsolete, overrefined, overripe, played out, soft, spent, vitiated, washed-out, wasted, weak, worn out |
Antonyms: |
capable, tireless |
| Main Entry: | emasculate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | weaken, deprive of force |
Synonyms: |
alter, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, fix*, impoverish, vitiate |
Antonyms: |
aid, assist, help |
| Main Entry: | exhaust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire or wear out |
Synonyms: |
bankrupt, burn out, conk out, cripple, debilitate, disable, do in, drain, draw, enervate, enfeeble, fag, fatigue, frazzle, impoverish, overdo, overexert, overextend, overfatigue, overtire, overwork, peter out, poop, poop out, prostrate, run ragged, sap*, suck dry, tucker, use up, weaken, wear down, weary |
Antonyms: |
animate, invigorate, refresh |
| Main Entry: | exhausted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely tired |
Synonyms: |
all in, beat*, bleary, bone-weary, bushed, crippled, dead tired, dead*, debilitated, disabled, dog-tired, done for, done in, drained, effete, enervated, frazzled, had it, kaput, limp, out on one's feet, outta gas, prostrated, ready to drop, run-down, sapped, shot*, spent, tired out, wasted*, weak, weakened, wearied, worn, worn out |
Antonyms: |
animated, energetic, fresh, invigorated, lively, vigorous |