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Definition of Enfeeble

1. Verb. Make weak. "The performance is likely to enfeeble Sue"; "Life in the camp drained him"

Definition of Enfeeble

1. v. t. To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

Definition of Enfeeble

1. Verb. (transitive) To make feeble. ¹

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Definition of Enfeeble

1. to make feeble [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES] - See also: feeble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enfeeble

Literary usage of Enfeeble

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1818)
"To «taken may be eitb« a temporary or permanent act when applied to persons ; enfeeble is permanent either as to the body or the mind : we may be weakened ..."

2. Lectures on the diseases of the nervous system by Jean Martin Charcot (1879)
"enfeeble- ment of the intellect. Sacral eschars. Terminal complaints: they differ from those of disseminated sclerosis. Duration of paralysis agitan? ..."

3. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"... neither do they enfeeble her spiritual life. God has given wings to her spirit, and the physically-bound young girl has sent forth from her sick-bed ..."

4. Sermons of the Rev. James Saurin: Late Pastor of the French Church at the Hague by Jacques Saurin (1836)
"... it should induce him to call to his aid, meditation, reading, retirement, solitude, and whatever is calculated to enfeeble the influence of 2. ..."

5. The Young Man: Hints Addressed to the Young Men of the United States by John Todd (1845)
"Second temptation: To waste time, enfeeble the intellect, and corrupt the heart, by foolish and wicked books. How the taste is created and cherished. ..."

6. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"... against us : infatuate their policies, enfeeble their strength, and prevent them in their devilish purposes, that seek to prevent thee in thy judgments, ..."

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