different between atrophy vs enervate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (atrophía, “a wasting away”), from ??????? (átrophos, “ill-fed, un-nourished”), from ?- (a-, “not”) + ????? (troph?, “nourishment”), from ????? (tréph?, “I fatten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æ.t??.fi/

Noun

atrophy (countable and uncountable, plural atrophies)

1. (pathology) A reduction in the functionality of an organ caused by disease, injury or lack of use. [from early 17th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

atrophy (third-person singular simple present atrophies, present participle atrophying, simple past and past participle atrophied)

1. (intransitive) To wither or waste away. [from early 18th c.]
2. (transitive) To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Antonyms

• hypertrophy
• strengthen

Translations

See also

• -trophy
• hypotrophy

Further reading

• atrophy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin ?nerv?tus, past participle of ?nerv? (“to weaken”).

Pronunciation

• (verb): IPA^(key): /??n.?(?)?ve?t/ (UK)
• (adjective): IPA^(key): /??n.?(?).v?t/ (UK)

Verb

enervate (third-person singular simple present enervates, present participle enervating, simple past and past participle enervated)

1. (transitive) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

   After being laid off three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.

2. (transitive) To weaken morally or mentally.
3. (medicine) To partially or completely remove a nerve.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:enervate.

Synonyms

• (reduce strength): debilitate, weaken

Antonyms

• (reduce strength): strengthen, revive
• (reduce morally, mentally): bolster

Translations

Adjective

enervate (comparative more enervate, superlative most enervate)

1. Made feeble; weakened.

Anagrams

• venerate

Latin

Participle

?nerv?te

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nerv?tus