enfeeble
verb (used with object)
to make feeble; weaken.
has enfeebled
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present perfectof enfeeble (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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His age, 86, has enfeebled him; his hand shakes from Parkinson's.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suffering has enfeebled their whole being, it has loosened even the ties that bound them to me.
From The Lily of the Valley by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
If our liberty has enfeebled the executive power, there is no design, I hope, to call in the aid of despotism to fill up the deficiencies of law.
From Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. by Henry Morley
Society has enfeebled man, not merely by robbing him of the right to his own strength, but still more by making his strength insufficient for his needs.
From Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In the portrait of the Emperor we behold a man whom life has enfeebled, and who has to meet a foe who may crush him.
From The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance Third Edition by Bernard Berenson
