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enervate

[en-er-veyt, ih-nur-vit] / ˈɛn ərˌveɪt, ɪˈnɜr vɪt /


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Like many community newsrooms around the country, the Truth Teller is a ghost paper owned by a conglomerate called Enervate.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

The Truth Teller is a stand-in for hundreds of regional publications swallowed by companies like Enervate.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025

In the new series, Dunder Mifflin, the office in “The Office,” has been absorbed into a company called Enervate, which deals in office supplies, janitorial paper and local newspapers, “in order of quality.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2025

Enervate, en-ėr′vāt, v.t. to deprive of nerve, strength, or courage: to weaken.—adj. weakened: spiritless.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Enervate, long she stood—a sculptured dread,   Till waking sense dissolved amazement's chain; Then home, with timid haste, distracted fled,   And sunk in dreadful agony of pain.

From Poems (1828) by Gent, Thomas




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