enfeeble

present singular third person enfeebles · participle present enfeebling · participle past enfeebled · past enfeebled · alternative infeeble

1. transitiveTo make feeble.

   1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130, "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."

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   In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.

   2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe”, in The Guardian

   The Republican-appointed justices may yet enfeeble the executive branch’s ability to implement federal law.

   2022 January 13, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Supreme Court Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules”, in Slate

   i found him in my bart and now he DOES NOT leave me alone i have been feeding him gluten free breakfast sausage salmwiches in the hopes that malnutrition will enfeeble him but hes still here and i dont like it

   2024 December 28, mummynapkins, how do i makehim go away, archived from the original on 29 Dec 2024

   Synonyms: weaken