disinvigorate

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ invigorate

Verb

disinvigorate (third-person singular simple present disinvigorates, present participle disinvigorating, simple past and past participle disinvigorated)

1. (transitive) To enervate; to weaken.
   • 1844, Sydney Smith, letter to Mrs. Holland:

     I doubt whether to attribute this to old-age, and to consider it as inevitable, or to blame this soft, and warm, and disinvigorating climate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disinvigorate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)