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enervation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun enervation has 3 senses
- enervation(n = noun.attribute) Array - lack of vitality; "an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue" is a kind of weakness
- enervation(n = noun.event) debilitation, enfeeblement, exhaustion - serious weakening and loss of energy; Array is a kind of weakening
- enervation(n = noun.act) Array - surgical removal of a nerve; Array is a kind of ablation, cutting out, excision, extirpation
Derived form verb enervate1
Derived form verb enervate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
enervation, n. [L. enervatio: cf. F. énervation.].
- The act of weakening, or reducing strength. [1913 Webster]
- The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
enervation
Weakness
N weakness, debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation, impotence, infirmity, effeminacy, feminality, fragility, flaccidity, inactivity, anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood, declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength, delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain, reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards, softling, weakling, infant, youth, weak, feeble, debile, impotent, relaxed, unnerved sapless, strengthless, powerless, weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic, nervous, soft, effeminate, feminate, womanly, frail, fragile, shattery, flimsy, unsubstantial, insubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread, rickety, creaky, creaking, cranky, craichy, drooping, tottering, broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky, palsied, decrepit, languid, poor, infirm, faint, faintish, sickly, dull, slack, evanid, spent, short-winded, effete, weather-beaten, decayed, rotten, worn, seedy, languishing, wasted, washy, laid low, pulled down, the worse for wear, unstrengthened, unsupported, unaided, unassisted, aidless, defenseless, cantilevered (support), on its last legs, weak as a child, weak as a baby, weak as a chicken, weak as a cat, weak as a rat, weak as water, weak as water gruel, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, colorless, non sum qualis eram.
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