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
Time had not changed Louis much, although his reckless life had enfeebled his constitution.
From The Honour of Savelli A Romance by S. (Sidney) Levett-Yeats
The restraints which had enfeebled the mind of the young Prince were required to support it.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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
Weeks of fever had enfeebled his vision until the world about him looked new and strange.
From Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail by James Oliver Curwood
