enfeeble
[en-fee-buhl]
verb (used with object), en·fee·bled, en·fee·bling.
to make feeble; weaken: That bout of pneumonia enfeebled him.
RELATED WORDS
exhaust, debilitate, unnerve, incapacitate, attenuate, cripple, devitalize, disable, fatigue, deplete, diminish, sap, blunt, unhinge, undermine, weaken
Origin of enfeeble
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Examples from the Web for enfeeble
Historical Examples of enfeeble
Nothing could enfeeble that, it seemed heroic, and covered all other laches.
Pickwickian StudiesPercy Fitzgerald
Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.
Imaginary Conversations and PoemsWalter Savage Landor
There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening.
The Innocents AbroadMark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There, no petty circle of society can fetter the energies or enfeeble the endeavors.
ConfessionW. Gilmore Simms
But in poverty there is also a tendency to intimidate, to enfeeble, to benumb.
Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3)Theodore Parker
enfeeble
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