enerve

Compare French énerver. See enervate.

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈnɜː(ɹ)v/

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enerve (third-person singular simple present enerves, present participle enerving, simple past and past participle enerved)

1. (obsolete) To weaken or enervate.
   • 1671, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] 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

• “enerve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Vereen, evener, veneer

enerve

1. inflection of enervar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

enerve

1. inflection of enervar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative