What's the difference between enervate and feeble?

Enervate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
  • (a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In light of the appearance of cyclic enervative episodes, this study suggests limitations to primate models of panic disorder utilizing oral yohimbine.
  • (2) On the one hand, they are enervated, depleted, losing energy, as shops and restaurants find that their businesses can’t be sustained by the occasional populations of these neighbourhoods.
  • (3) There are signs that we will soon be exhausted by the Anthropocene: glutted by its ubiquity as a cultural shorthand, fatigued by its imprecisions, and enervated by its variant names – the “Anthrobscene”, the “Misanthropocene”, the “Lichenocene” (actually, that last one is mine).
  • (4) In deprivation-reared subjects, low-dose yohimbine produced reductions in tension and enervation, and increases in "normal" behaviors.
  • (5) That it developed later than other Southern medical schools has been attributed to multiple factors, among them rural isolation, restricted communication, limited transportation, sparse population, cultural deprivation, and climatologic enervation.
  • (6) But he missed the chance to be there at the beginning for artist-director Katsuhiro Otomo 's earlier masterpiece – 25 this year – when its enervating hyper-realism left retina burn in the eyes of action fans and film-makers worldwide.
  • (7) Enervation of the vas deferens and epididymis may be blocked and cause a smaller emission.
  • (8) David Cameron – whose natural comfort zone still remains talking breezily about the good times and giveaways around the corner – didn't come into politics to preside over an enervating decade of economic pessimism any more than Ed Miliband did to shrink the state.
  • (9) Conventional approaches using pooled subject data to increase the degree of freedom for statistical inference are enervated by the resultant introduction of intersubject variability.
  • (10) In 15 patients with acquired polyneuropathy (Guillain-Barré syndrome and chronic recurrent polyneuropathy) the conduction velocity was measured in the peripheral nerves of the upper and lower extremities, the latency of the F wave was determined, and the somatosensory evoked potentials were assessed stimulating the median enerve and posterior tibial nerve.
  • (11) Response to oral yohimbine differed in several ways from subcutaneous and intravenous sodium lactate infusions, including prominent enervative symptoms and the appearance of sexual arousal.
  • (12) The majority of patients showed only minor impairment or normal results in the lower segment, which would point to a double or single enervation from the branches of the cervical plexus.
  • (13) Plannui The sheer enervation felt when surveying the rows of series-linked shows on your DVR planner that you will never have time to watch.
  • (14) Somuncu is among those who believe the book itself will not take off in terms of sales, describing it as “enervating and boring”, but he is convinced that the fascination for it would be far more muted now, had German authorities – more specifically the Bavarian government, which has held the rights to it – been more open about it.
  • (15) At university, Obaro was part of a grime collective, but on The Sound of Strangers EP Ghostpoet has come up with a different sort of music with a different kind of enervated energy.
  • (16) In the normal subjects, yohimbine, at both doses, produced increased tension and enervation and decreased species-typical "normal" behaviors.
  • (17) Obama’s victories over the last six years aside, this is a familiar spectacle for left-leaning Americans, enough so that the breast-beating is almost as enervating as all of those defeats.
  • (18) "I can't be held responsible for all that has happened since," she says when I bring this up, her eyes flashing and her enervated east-coast drawl undercut with just a hint of anger.
  • (19) Yohimbine significantly increased episodes of motoric activation and affective response interspersed with intervals of behavioral enervation.
  • (20) In addition, three more delimited forms of distress -- feelings of enervation, dysphoria, and sleep disturbances -- show higher levels among the older cohort.

Feeble


Definition:

  • (superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
  • (superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
  • (v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
  • (2) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
  • (3) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
  • (4) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
  • (5) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
  • (6) These data indicate that Veillonella and Neisseria species possess a feeble ability to attach to cleaned teeth.
  • (7) If you want to compare effective regulation with weak regulation, compare the utterly feeble 2009 PCC report into phone hacking with the way the former independent television regulator, the ITC, reacted when, back in 1998, the Guardian published allegations about a programme on drug-running made by Carlton TV.
  • (8) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
  • (9) In treating vertebragenic headache, the segmental movement, the shortened postural muscles, the feeble phasic muscles and the wrong patterns of movement can be influenced by exercises.
  • (10) No proliferative activity is seen in the giant cells and these cells show only feeble phagocytic activity, tested by their ability to take up carbon particles.
  • (11) A muscle that has feeble tendon jerks may show a late component in the response to a tendon tap, with a latency similar to that of the long-latency stretch reflex.
  • (12) The administration of a convulsant dose of penicillin enhanced the transmission of monosynaptic reflexes in spinal cords in which reflex transmission was feeble before the drug treatment, but it had little effect in cords where monosynaptic reflexes were powerful to begin with.
  • (13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
  • (14) At the other extreme with an average allograft survival time of 91 days, C3H(H-1(a)) --> C3H.K(H-1(b)) showed a feeble production of plaque-forming cells with a peak response of 3.7 per 10 x 10(6) viable spleen cells at 9 days.
  • (15) But this much is clear: the old system of regulation was feeble.
  • (16) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
  • (17) Of the several esophageal body motor abnormalities considered, only feeble peristalsis had significantly more positive Bernstein tests than did normal esophageal body motor functioning.
  • (18) Failures picked over include parliament's dithering over election laws that could result in the country going into a crucial presidential poll next year with no legal framework, the feeble sentences handed to the masterminds of the $900m Kabul Bank scandal and slow progress on asset recovery.
  • (19) For mild cooling (32 degrees C), the Q10 in 18-day-old embryos was about 1.5, while 12- and 16-day-old embryos had a Q10 value of about 2, indicating that a feeble homeothermic metabolic response to cooling appears in late prenatal embryos.
  • (20) "The justifications presented [for] the reduction are, to say the least, feeble.