The difference between Bolster and Enervate

When used as verbs, bolster means to brace, reinforce, secure, or support, whereas enervate means to reduce strength or energy.


Bolster is also noun with the meaning: a large cushion or pillow.

Enervate is also adjective with the meaning: made feeble.

check bellow for the other definitions of Bolster and Enervate

  1. Bolster as a noun:

    A large cushion or pillow.

  2. Bolster as a noun:

    A pad, quilt, or anything used to hinder pressure, support part of the body, or make a bandage sit easy upon a wounded part; a compress.

  3. Bolster as a noun (vehicles, agriculture):

    A small spacer located on top of the axle of horse-drawn wagons that gives the front wheels enough clearance to turn.

  4. Bolster as a noun:

    A short, horizontal structural timber between a post and a beam for enlarging the bearing area of the post and/or reducing the span of the beam.

    Examples:

    "synonyms cross-head pillow"

  5. Bolster as a noun:

    A beam in the middle of a railway truck, supporting the body of the car.

  6. Bolster as a noun:

    The perforated plate in a punching machine on which anything rests when being punched.

  7. Bolster as a noun:

    The part of a knife blade that abuts upon the end of the handle.

  8. Bolster as a noun:

    The metallic end of a pocketknife handle.

  9. Bolster as a noun (architecture):

    The rolls forming the ends or sides of the Ionic capital.

    Examples:

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  10. Bolster as a noun (military, historical):

    A block of wood on the carriage of a siege gun, upon which the breech of the gun rests when arranged for transportation.

  1. Bolster as a verb (transitive, often, figurative):

    To brace, reinforce, secure, or support.

  1. Enervate as a verb (transitive):

    To reduce strength or energy; debilitate.

  2. Enervate as a verb (transitive):

    To weaken morally or mentally.

  3. Enervate as a verb (medicine):

    To partially or completely remove a nerve.

  4. Enervate as a verb:

    Sentence

  5. Enervate as a verb:

    After being “laid off” three times in a row, she felt too enervated to look for another job.

  1. Enervate as an adjective:

    Made feeble; weakened.

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