to render
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4.7
- verb
- /ˈrɛndər/
:
dejar
- Failure to adapt the treatment to local circumstances may render an otherwise powerful treatment ineffective.
- render something ineffective
- render someone powerless
- render something useless
But they would never ask for it because it would render them too vulnerable.
- But they would never ask for it because it would render them too vulnerable.
- Now, these fairy tales really can, in all seriousness, render people blind.
- Tell people why their opinions render them unpatriotic.
- So that's like a third of the country rendered uninhabitable.
- Essentially, there are events that render all the data that you have useless.
- Is it unsettled, social rife and renders psychic life fragile?
- When we do things to children, they're rendered passive.
- In summary, economic duress can render a contract voidable.
- And what this does though, is it renders all of the world as being basically immoral.
- Even the slightest thought that a man can't become a woman is enough to render you unemployable.
Examples
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Fifth, the department chair or dean renders a judgment based on the collected data.
Academic text (1999) -
It's also possible that new, more pressing concerns might render these risks moot.
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But they would never ask for it because it would render them too vulnerable.
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Essentially, there are events that render all the data that you have useless.
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Failure to list the employee on such a patent will likely render the patent invalid.
Academic text (2011) -
They say the damage to the tower has rendered all cellular telephones useless.
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Likewise, mere skepticism without any hope for improvement renders government, especially democratic government, meaningless.
Academic text (2017) -
The storm damaged the bridge and rendered it unsafe for vehicles.
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His actions could render the agreement null and void.
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The virus can render a computer inoperable if not addressed quickly.
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Etymology
Render comes from the Old French rendre and the Latin reddere, which mean 'to give back'. Think of it as 'giving' a condition to someone or something, so to render someone speechless is to 'make' or 'give' them that state.