Enfeeble
[ɪn'fiːb(ə)l;en-]
Definition
(v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Editor: Moll
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Weaken, unnerve, ENERVATE.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See ENERVATE]
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Definition
v.t. to make feeble: to weaken.—n. Enfee′blement weakening: weakness.
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Examples
- The strength of the papacy lay in the faith men had in it, and it used that faith so carelessly as to enfeeble it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The poor bent, enfeebled creature struck his imagination. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Genoa and Venice, the only two remaining which can pretend to an independent existence, have both been enfeebled by it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The effort of remembering that he wanted to speak to me was, but too evidently, the only effort that his enfeebled memory was now able to achieve. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With my enfeebled health I do not know whether I shall ever be able to complete it, now that my assistant has been taken from me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I am now in my eighty-fourth year, and the last year has considerably enfeebled me, so that I hardly expect to remain another. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Meanwhile the barbarians swung down into the broken-up and enfeebled world of civilization from the west and from the east. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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