E‐ner″vate (?), 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.
A man... enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay.
And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden.
Syn. — To weaken; enfeeble; unnerve; debilitate.