exinanite means to make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “exinanite” is a great word
EXINANITE — [Verb] To empty a person or thing of all power, dignity, or strength; to render utterly weak, ineffective, and abased. From the Latin exinānīt-, exinānīre, from ex- ("out") and inānis ("empty, vain"). Unlike "enervate," which focuses on draining vitality, or "abase," which merely lowers dignity, to exinanite is to systematically void a vessel of its very essence. It is the hollow echo in a throne room stripped of its regalia, the palpable slackening in the handshake of a once-formidable rival, and the scent of dust rising from a gutted archive—the quiet terminus where a thing, so thoroughly emptied, ceases even to be a ruin.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin exinānīt-, exinānīre (“to empty the contents of; to drain or pour out”).
verb
- To make (something) weak and ineffective; to enervate.
- To empty someone of their power and dignity (usually said of Christ).“For this thinke in your ſelues, vvhich alſo in Chriſt Iesvs, vvho vvhen he vvas in the forme of God, thought it no robberie, him ſelf to be equal to God, but he exinanited him ſelf, taking the forme of a ſeruant, made into the ſimilitude of men, and in ſhape found as man.”