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Tire vs Enervate - What's the difference?

tire | enervate |

In transitive terms the difference between tire and enervate

is that tire is to bore while enervate is to weaken morally or mentally.

As verbs the difference between tire and enervate

is that tire is to become sleepy or weary while enervate is to reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

As a noun tire

is accoutrements, accessories.

As an adjective enervate is

made feeble; weakened.

tire

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) tiren, tirien, teorien, from (etyl)

Alternative forms

* (l) (dialectal)

Verb

(tir) (of)
  • To become sleepy or weary.
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  • To make sleepy or weary.
  • To become bored or impatient (with)
    • I tire of this book.
  • To bore
    • Synonyms
    *
    Related terms
    * tiresome

    References

    External links

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Alternative forms

    * (rubber covering on a wheel) tyre

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Accoutrements, accessories.
  • * Philips
    • the tire of war
  • (obsolete) Dress, clothes, attire.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vii:
    • Ne spared they to strip her naked all. / Then when they had despoild her tire and call, / Such as she was, their eyes might her behold.
  • *, New York Review of Books 2001, p.66:
    • men like apes follow the fashions in tires , gestures, actions: if the king laugh, all laugh […].
  • A covering for the head; a headdress.
  • * Spenser
    • On her head she wore a tire of gold.
  • Metal rim of a wheel, especially that of a railroad locomotive.
  • (lb) The rubber covering on a wheel; a tyre.
  • A child's apron covering the upper part of the body, and tied with tape or cord; a pinafore. Also tier.
    • Usage notes
    * Tire is one of the few words where Canadian usage prefers the US spelling over the British spelling.
    Related terms
    * spare tire

    Verb

    (tir)
  • (obsolete) To dress or adorn.
  • * Bible, 2 Kings ix. 30
    • [Jezebel] painted her face, and tired her head.
    Related terms
    * tiring-house

    Etymology 3

    (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * tyre

    Verb

    (tir)
  • (obsolete) To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.
  • * Ben Jonson
    • Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, / That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits.
  • (obsolete) To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.
  • * Chapman
    • Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tiring on her son.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Upon that were my thoughts tiring .

    Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A tier, row, or rank.
  • * Milton
    • In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.

    Anagrams

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    enervate

    English

    Verb

    (enervat)
  • (lb) To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.
  • (lb) To weaken morally or mentally.
  • (lb) To partially or completely remove a nerve.

    • Synonyms

    * (reduce strength) debilitate, weaken

    Antonyms

    * (reduce strength) strengthen, revive * bolster

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Made feeble; weakened.

    • Anagrams

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