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Word Meanings - UNNERVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.

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  • UNSTRIPED
    Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
  • RELAXANT
    A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
  • UNHINGE
    1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains,
  • RELAXATIVE
    Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
  • ENFEEBLER
    One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
  • UNNERVE
    To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak.
  • DETERIORATE
    To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind. Whately. The art of war . . . was greatly deteriorated. Southey. (more info) deteriorate, fr. deterior worse, prob. a comparative fr. de down,
  • UNSTRAINED
    1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill.
  • UNSTRIATED
    Nonstriated; unstriped.
  • RELAX
    1. To make lax or loose; to make less close, firm, rigid, tense, or the like; to slacken; to loosen; to open; as, to relax a rope or cord; to relax the muscles or sinews. Horror . . . all his joints relaxed. Milton. Nor served it to relax their
  • ENERVATE
    To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of. A man . . . enervated by licentiousness. Macaulay. And rhyme began t' enervate poetry. Dryden. Syn. -- To weaken;
  • UNSTRING
    Used also figuratively; as, his nerves were unstrung by fear. (more info) 1. To deprive of a string or strings; also, to take from a string; as, to unstring beads. 2. To loosen the string or strings of; as, to unstring a harp or a bow. 3. To relax
  • RELAXATION
    1. The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law. 2. Remission from attention and effort; indulgence in recreation, diversion, or amusement. "Hours of careless relaxation."
  • DEBILITATE
    To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance. Various ails debilitate the mind. Jenyns. The debilitated frame of Mr. Bertram was exhausted by this last effort. Sir W. Scott.
  • WEAKEN
    1. To make weak; to lessen the strength of; to deprive of strength; to debilitate; to enfeeble; to enervate; as, to weaken the body or the mind; to weaken the hands of a magistrate; to weaken the force of an objection or an argument. Their hands
  • RELAXABLE
    Capable of being relaxed.
  • ENFEEBLEMENT
    The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
  • WEAKENER
    One who, or that which, weakens. " weakeners of sin." South.
  • ENFEEBLE
    To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott. Syn. -- To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
  • UNHINGEMENT
    The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.

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