cripple vs enervate

cripple

verb
  • To damage seriously; to destroy. 

  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired. 

  • To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. 

  • To nerf something which is overpowered. 

  • To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally. 

noun
  • a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 

  • A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. 

  • A rocky shallow in a stream. 

  • scrapple. 

enervate

verb
  • To weaken morally or mentally. 

  • To partially or completely remove a nerve. 

  • To reduce strength or energy; debilitate. 

adj
  • Made feeble; weakened. 

How often have the words cripple and enervate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )