unpower

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Lack of power; weakness. uncountable
    — Paradoxically, it is this unpower that proceeds to produce the suppressive superpower of metaphysics and that inscribes in Sallis' s work or in his "deconstructive" strategy — I would even say, in his hyperdeconstructive strategy — [...]
动词 v.
  1. To remove the power from; power down or power off transitive
    — “Desperate to retrieve the webscrolls and unpower the staff, which could only be done by tossing it into The Saline Sea, [...]”

词形变化

unpowers present,singular,third-person unpowering participle,present unpowered participle,past unpowered past

词源

词源 1
From un- (lack of) + power.
词源 2
From un- (reversive prefix) + power.
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