enervate
verb
• make (someone) feel drained of energy or vitality.
• "the heat enervated us all"
Similar:
exhaust,
tire,
fatigue,
weary,
wear out,
devitalize,
drain,
sap,
weaken,
make weak,
make feeble,
enfeeble,
debilitate,
incapacitate,
indispose,
prostrate,
immobilize,
lay low,
put out of action,
knock out,
do in,
take it out of one,
shatter,
poop,
frazzle,
wear to a frazzle,
fag out,
knacker,
torpefy,
enervate
adjective
• lacking in energy or vitality.
• "the enervate slightness of his frail form"
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’.
