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[ verb ] weaken mentally or morally

Used in print

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

What you were looking_for ( unless you make a hobby of collecting old tennis_rackets and fly screens ) eludes me , but to judge from phonograph_records scattered about a fumed_oak Victrola , you danced two tangos and a paso_doble , which must have been fairly enervating in that milieu .

Related terms

weaken debilitation

2
[ verb ] disturb the composure of

Synonyms

faze unsettle unnerve

Related terms

upset unman

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