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单词 enervated
释义
enervated
past simple and past participle ofenervate
enervate
verb[T]
formal
uk
/ˈen.ə.veɪt/us
/ˈen.ɚ.veɪt/
to make someonefeelweakand withoutenergy
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Becoming and making less strong
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  • abatement
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • adulteration
  • emasculation
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  • enervating
  • enfeeble
  • enfeebled
  • fade
  • hedge
  • melt
  • relieve
  • sink
  • totter
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  • turn to jellyidiom
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(Definition ofenervatedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofenervated

enervated

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 andenervatedsensibilities bore out their emptiness of being.
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Through such metaphorical comparisons, white-collar masculinity was, then, at once energised andenervated.
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The shock of the king's death hadenervatedthe royalist cause.
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Any such conclusion calls into serious question the generalizability of a theory, but let us entertain thisenervatedversion nonetheless.
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Finally, highly fractionalised parties in governmentenervatedthe authority of the executive and rendered prime ministers vulnerable to the problem of the lame duck.
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Even when legislatures enacted eight-hour laws, for example, legislators often included loopholes that nullified them, or public executives enforced them irregularly, or the courtsenervatedthem.
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Many of the necessary political institutions and forces within the country are now soenervatedthat reform cannot be expected to proceed without considerable external help.
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I do not think that it is we who are theenervatedparty.
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Prosperity hasenervatedthem, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction.
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Winter has a lyrical writing style but has been criticised for egregious and frequent malapropisms, including repeated misuse of the wordenervated.
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Exhausted due to hard work and restless due to thirst the king becameenervatedin search of river or lake.
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The army had been thinned by desertion and wasenervatedby long ill-discipline.
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