enfeeble
verb (used with object)
to make feeble; weaken.
had enfeebled
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past perfectof enfeeble.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The war had enfeebled, physically and psychologically, the claims of Western power over the Eastern treasure house.
From Time Magazine Archive
It would require much nerve to talk to strange people upon an excitable topic; and a camp fever, which among other things I had gained on the Chickahominy, had enfeebled me to the last degree.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
He was then a respectable old man, the weight of whose years had enfeebled his memory.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
Book-learning, the accumulation of wordy common-places, the gaudy pretensions of poetical fiction, had enfeebled and perverted our eye for nature.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
He wished to go too, but could not for sickness had enfeebled him, and prudence pointed out the folly of roving again too soon across the northern tropic.
From Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton
