Enervate
['enəveɪt] or ['ɛnɚvet]
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To deprive of nerve, force, strength, or courage; to render feeble or impotent; to make effeminate; to impair the moral powers of.
(a.) Weakened; weak; without strength of force.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Unnerve, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, paralyze, break, deprive of force or strength, render feeble.
休伯特校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Weaken, enfeeble, unnerve, deteriorate, debilitate, relax, unstring, unhinge
ANT:Strengthen, brace, invigorate, harden, nerve
編輯:罗比
解釋/意思:
v.t. to deprive of nerve strength or courage: to weaken.—adj. weakened: spiritless.—n. Enervā′tion.—adj. Ener′vative.—v.t. Enerve′ (obs.) to enervate.
整理:玛米
例句/造句/用法:
- A perilous solitude, for it lasted long enough to enervate, not long enough to fortify me. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- One cannot resist speculation as to what might have happened to Edison himself and to the development of electricity had he made this proposed plunge into the enervating tropics. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Too great humidity is enervating, and not conducive to either mental or physical exertion; on the other hand, too dry air is equally harmful. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The masses of people held together under the name Democratic are bound in an enervating communion. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- I awoke next morning with courage revived and spirits refreshed: physical debility no longer enervated my judgment; my mind felt prompt and clear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
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