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Webster 1913 Edition
Enfeeble
En-fee′ble
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enfeebled
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enfeebling
.] 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.
Definition 2024
enfeeble
enfeeble
English
Verb
enfeeble (third-person singular simple present enfeebles, present participle enfeebling, simple past and past participle enfeebled)
- (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."
- 2014, Michael White, "Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe", The Guardian, 8 September 2014: