† effeeblishv.
Obsolete.
transitive. To enfeeble.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > weaken [verb (transitive)]
unstrengea1225
unstrength?c1225
feeblea1340
affeeblea1400
weakc1400
affeeblishc1450
enfeeblisha1492
pallc1500
weaken1569
effeeblish?1572
unstrengthen1598
labefy1620
unnerve1621
unmasculate1639
unbrace1711
sinka1715
infirmize1751
slacken1778
exhaust1860
?1572 T. Paynell tr. Treasurie Amadis of Fraunce xii. 305 The braue Lyons..shall be brought under, and the strength of their clawes effeblished.
Derivatives
eˈffeeblishing n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xxxiiiiv To the great effeablysshyng of the woman.
eˈffeeblishment n. weakening.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health
failinga1382
sickeninga1382
wasting1398
downhielda1400
dissolutionc1400
debilitationa1492
defailing1502
effeeblishing1540
faintingc1540
effeeblishment1545
enervationa1575
feeblishing1574
declining1588
decay1609
flagging1611
labefaction1620
feebling1624
sinking1625
deading1645
dejection1652
fail1654
emperiment1674
decline1770
sapping1825
breakdown1858
attenuation1868
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. xiii. sig. H.vv For in sum [women] they linger vppon them, v. vi. vii. ye. viii. days at each terme to their great effeoblysshment.
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