transitive. To make faint or weak, depress, enfeeble, weaken. Rare in modern use. Also impersonal it faints me.

transitive. To enervate, enfeeble, weaken. Obsolete.

To enfeeble or decrease the vigour of (the mind, etc.).

transitive. To excessively indulge (an emotion, quality, thought, etc.).

transitive. In passive. Of the brain, mind, etc.: to become confused or unsound; to be impaired to some degree. Cf. touched, adj. 3. Obsolete.

transitive. To deprive of spirit.

transitive. To deprive of nerve or vigour; to weaken, relax.

figurative. To change as if into stone. transitive. To deprive of feeling, vitality, or capacity for change, development, etc.; to harden, deaden…

transitive. To deprive of ‘sinew’ or vigour.

figurative. To render lax or slack; esp. to deprive of firmness or strength in this way; to enfeeble, weaken.

transitive. To affect with atrophy, to starve.

To unnerve, upset (a person).