| 词汇 | enervated |
| 释义 | enervated past simple and past participle ofenervate enervate verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈen.ə.veɪt/ us /ˈen.ɚ.veɪt/ to make someone feel weak and without energy使衰弱；使无力；使丧失活力 Becoming and making less strong abate abatement adulterant adulterate adulterated be fading away/fastidiom downtoner dull ease emasculation enervate enervating hedge melt relieve tone something down totter tottering turn to jellyidiom undimmed Examples of enervatedenervated In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Medically, their absence of inner heat, susceptible temperaments, pale countenances and enervated sensibilities bore out their emptiness of being. Through such metaphorical comparisons, white-collar masculinity was, then, at once energised and enervated. The shock of the king's death had enervated the royalist cause. Any such conclusion calls into serious question the generalizability of a theory, but let us entertain this enervated version nonetheless. Finally, highly fractionalised parties in government enervated the authority of the executive and rendered prime ministers vulnerable to the problem of the lame duck. Even when legislatures enacted eight-hour laws, for example, legislators often included loopholes that nullified them, or public executives enforced them irregularly, or the courts enervated them. Many of the necessary political institutions and forces within the country are now so enervated that reform cannot be expected to proceed without considerable external help. I do not think that it is we who are the enervated party. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Winter has a lyrical writing style but has been criticised for egregious and frequent malapropisms, including repeated misuse of the word enervated. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Exhausted due to hard work and restless due to thirst the king became enervated in search of river or lake. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The army had been thinned by desertion and was enervated by long ill-discipline. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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