Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of enfeeble
adjectiveenfeebling (comparative more enfeebling, superlative most enfeebling)
comparative more enfeebling · superlative most enfeebling
- Causing enfeeblement.
This persistence was having a very enfeebling effect on Cora. It gave her the illusion that Ted Farrell was a masterful dominant and that she was being exposed to him as an incompetent noodle.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 170
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivecausing debilitation
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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