enervates 

  1. 動詞
enervate第三者單數現在式:
及物動詞:
使...(人)失去活力
使...(人)衰弱

    同義字詞
castrate,damp,dampen,deaden,dehydrate,desiccate,devitalize,lobotomize,petrify
debilitate,devitalize,enfeeble,etiolate,prostrate,sap,soften,tire,waste,weaken

例句

  1. Other problems: The Dream Logic under which the movie operates both enables and enervates the plot.
  2. Hedonism has its own special form of enervating moralism, the value placed on the immediate sensual pleasure means that certain emotional reactions against it are disvalued. i.e. hedonism enervates in precisely the same way that moralism and Christianity enervate.
  3. Even men and women professing godliness give loose rein to their lustful passions, and have no thought that God holds them accountable for the expenditure of vital energy, which weakens their hold on life and enervates the entire system."–Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, p. 472.
  4. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates , extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
  5. Byrge wrote: "Nonetheless, 'Moon' is darkened by its own excellencies: The white, claustrophobic look is apt and moody, but a lack of physical action enervates the story thrust." The critic felt mixed about the star's performance, describing him as "adept at limning his character's dissolution" but finding that he did not have "the audacious, dominant edge" for the major confrontation at the end of the film.