enervate \EN-ur-vayt\, transitive verb:
- To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to render feeble; to weaken.
- To reduce the moral or mental vigor of.
Enervate is from the past participle of Latin enervare, "to remove the sinews from, to weaken," from e-, ex-, "out of, from" + nervus, "sinew."
- (test-OSS-ih-cross) v. The movie moment when every man in the theater crosses his legs and moans, right after someone's groin has been pummelled onscreen.
"Oh! DUDE! That was the worst testosticross moment EVAR!"
Trivia
What actress wore the first two-piece bathing suit ever seen on the silver screen?
- Dolores Del Rio, in Flying Down to Rio. The 1933 film marked the first screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (who were billed fifth and fourth, respectively).
- quagga: the last specimen of the zebra-like animal died, at the Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam (1883)
- Kursk: Russian nuclear submarine sank in the Barents Sea, killing the whole of its 118-member crew (2000)
- George IV (1762-1830): king of Great Britain
- Pete Sampras (37): tennis champ
- Casey Affleck (33): actor, Gone Baby Gone; also, actors George Hamilton who was the tannest Dracula and possible zombie (69), Bruce Greenwood (52), Peter Krause (43), Michael Ian Black (37), Rebecca Gayheart (36), Maggie Lawson (28) and Dominique Swain (28)
- Linda O'Neil (34): actress and the most famous body model that you probably don't know.
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