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Webster 1913 Edition


Enfeeble

En-fee′ble

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enfeebled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfeebling
.]
[OF.
enfeblir
,
enfeiblir
; pref.
en-
(L.
in
) +
feble
, F.
faible
, feeble. See
Feeble
.]
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Syn. – To weaken; debilitate; enervate.

Webster 1828 Edition


Enfeeble

ENFEE'BLE

,
Verb.
T.
[from feeble.] To deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate; to enervate. Intemperance enfeebles the body, and induces premature infirmity. Excessive grief and melancholy enfeeble the mind. Long wars enfeeble a state.

Definition 2024


enfeeble

enfeeble

English

Verb

enfeeble (third-person singular simple present enfeebles, present participle enfeebling, simple past and past participle enfeebled)

  1. (transitive) To make feeble.
    • 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014:
      In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.
    • 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,
      "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."

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