{UAH} enervate- WORD OF THE DAY December 27, 2018-

WORD OF THE DAY December 27, 2018

enervate    verb | EN-er-vayt     Definition   1 : to reduce the mental or moral vigor of   2 : to lessen the vitality or strength of   Scroll down for more about enervate      TRENDING NOW: nebulous synergy slumgullion endgame SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   From 'Syllabub' to 'Sundae': A Dessert Course in 7 Words       'Cherpumple': 3 Words Packed Into 1     The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 12/21/18       Just What Does That 'Ae' Say?         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Naughty or Nice Quiz   He's making a quiz, and checking it twice...     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   Enervate is a word that some people use without really knowing what it means. They seem to believe that because enervate looks a little bit like energize and invigorate it must share their meaning—but it is actually their antonym. Enervate comes from the Latin enervatus,the past participle of the verb enervare, which literally means "to remove the sinews of," but is also used figuratively in the sense of "to weaken." The Latin enervare was formed from the prefix e-, meaning "out of," and nervus, meaning "sinew or nerve." So etymologically, at least, someone who is enervated is "out of nerve."     Examples of ENERVATE   Dehydration and prolonged exposure to the sun had enervated the shipwrecked crew, leaving them almost too weak to hail the passing vessel.   "In contrast, there was dignity in the Joad family (of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath). When the Dust Bowl smothered Oklahoma, the Joads were not enervated, they moved west in search of work." — George Will, The Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2016   Name That Synonym   Fill in the blanks to complete a synonym of enervate referring to the lessening of strength:  _ _ f _ e _ le.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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