词为我用 - enervate

词汇释义

enervate  TEM8  IELTS    GRE

UK  /ˈen.ə.veɪt/ US  /ˈen.ɚ.veɪt/

verb, (formal) to make sb feel weak and tired 使感到衰弱（或虚弱、无力）

外刊例句

1. George Collier, another doctor, affirmed that graveyard miasma would "depress, impair and enervate the human frame", and was a predisposing cause of fever of the "low typhoid kind".(The Guardian)

2. At first, an odd stress on accompanying chords in the left hand threatened to enervate the right-hand theme.(The New Yorker)

3. One is hardly in New Mexico — or in Venice, São Paulo, Kwangju, Pittsburgh, or any other stop on the dismal circuit of periodic shows that regularly convene and enervate the international art crowd.(The New Yorker)

4. That opacity will enervate many viewers, as will its strict but unexplained chronological parameters; John Hughes acolytes aren't served here.(The Guardian)

5. Interestingly, Cardi B and Drake are both the kinds of artist that, one might imagine, would enervate Hill, a known evangelist of "real hip-hop".(The New Yorker)

6. And yet because wealth here is a loose floozy, available for nearly all the good-time Charlies, it does not enervate.(The New York Times)

7. That would further enervate Jiang's internal opposition in the Forbidden City.(The New York Times)

词汇搭配

enervate people

词汇来源

c. 1600, "deprive of force or strength," from Latin enervatus, past participle of enervare "to weaken" (see enervation). Literal sense of "to weaken, impair" in English is from 1610s. Related: Ennervated; ennervating. As a verb Middle English had enerve (c. 1400, eneruyd).

近义词

castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, petrify

反义词

brace, energize, enliven, invigorate, quicken, stimulate, vitalize, vivify

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