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   enervate

   verb

   • 1. make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality: "the heat enervated us all"

   adjective

   • 1. lacking in energy or vitality: literary "the enervate slightness of his frail form"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin enervat- ‘weakened (by extraction of the sinews)’, from the verb enervare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + nervus ‘sinew’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. enervator noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • E

     1

   • N

     1

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • V

     4

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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