enerve
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪˈnɜː(ɹ)v/
Verb
enerve (third-person singular simple present enerves, present participle enerving, simple past and past participle enerved)
- (obsolete) To weaken; to enervate.
- 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 2:
- Such object hath the power to soften and tame
Severest temper , smooth the rugged'st brow ,
Enerve , and with voluptuous hope dissolve
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enerve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Portuguese
Verb
enerve
- inflection of enervar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
enerve
- inflection of enervar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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