Home › Words › E › enecateenecate/ˈɛnɪkeɪt/enecate means to kill off; to destroy.enecate is pronounced /ˈɛnɪkeɪt/.EtymologyFrom Latin ēnecātus, past participle of ēnecāre; ē- (“out, utterly”) + necāre (“to kill”).verbTo kill off; to destroy.e.g.“in the manner of a most presentaneous poyson, they enecate in two or three hours” — 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.extermine 64% match — To exterminate (someone or something); to destroy. vs enecate →aberuncate 63% match — To eradicate; to pull up by the roots. vs enecate →uncreate 62% match — To kill; to destroy; to deprive of existence; to annihilate. vs enecate →perempt 60% match — To destroy or defeat. vs enecate →eunuchate 58% match — To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man). vs enecate →unbeget 58% match — To deprive of existence, i.e. kill. vs enecate →eldercide 57% match — Synonym of senicide. vs enecate →regnicide 57% match — One who destroys a kingdom. vs enecate →