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enervate

verb
  1. To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

    "After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job."

  2. To weaken morally or mentally.

  3. To partially or completely remove a nerve.

Synonymsdebilitate, weaken
Antonymsbolster, revive, strengthen
adjective
  1. Made feeble; weakened.

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