Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To wear out; exhaust; kill off.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To kill off; to destroy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, rare To kill off; to destroy.

Etymologies

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Latin enecatus, past participle of enecare; e out, utterly + necare to kill.

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