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Definition of enfeeble in English: enfeebleverb ɪnˈfiːb(ə)lɛnˈfiːb(ə)l [with object]often as adjective enfeebledMake weak or feeble. trade unions are in an enfeebled state Example sentencesExamples - The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons.
- Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
- The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
- He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health.
- Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
- On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’.
- One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work.
- Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
- It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
- The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled.
- When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia.
- My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out.
- I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
- At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him.
- The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
- He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies.
- A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely.
- And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
- He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old.
Synonyms weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize informal knock out, do in, shatter British informal knacker rare torpefy
Origin Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble 'feeble'. Definition of enfeeble in US English: enfeebleverb [with object]Make weak or feeble. trade unions are in an enfeebled state Example sentencesExamples - A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely.
- He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health.
- One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work.
- He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies.
- The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled.
- The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons.
- And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
- At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him.
- Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
- The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
- He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old.
- I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
- On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’.
- My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out.
- When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia.
- The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
- Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
- Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
- It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
Synonyms weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse
Origin Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble ‘feeble’. |