Thursday, September 22, 2011

Enervate

My word of the day, the new definition of tired. The feeling most moms (and some dads) feel after night after night of being up and down with the kids, never fully falling into a restful sleep. Here is the definition courtesy of Thesarus.com: (http://thesaurus.com/browse/enervated)
Definition: tire, wear out
Synonyms: debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary
Notes: energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or morally
enervate means 'drain energy or vigor from' (from Latin enervare 'weaken by extraction of the sinews') and innervate means 'supply with energy' (Latin in- 'in' and nervus 'strength, vigor, energy')
innervate means 'to stimulate or give nervous energy,' the opposite of enervate

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