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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-fee-buhl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈfi bəl |
Definition of enfeeble
Origin :- mid-14c., from Old French enfeblir "become weak," from en- (see en- (1)) + feble (see feeble). Related: Enfeebled; enfeebling.
- verb make very weak
- Nothing could enfeeble that, it seemed heroic, and covered all other laches.
- Extract from : « Pickwickian Studies » by Percy Fitzgerald
- Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.
- Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor
- There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening.
- Extract from : « The Innocents Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- There, no petty circle of society can fetter the energies or enfeeble the endeavors.
- Extract from : « Confession » by W. Gilmore Simms
- But in poverty there is also a tendency to intimidate, to enfeeble, to benumb.
- Extract from : « Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 1 (of 3) » by Theodore Parker
- Every time we cut ourselves off from nutrition, we enfeeble them.
- Extract from : « The Teacher » by George Herbert Palmer
- It has isolated interests in order to subjugate them; it has sundered all to enfeeble all.
- Extract from : « The Village Rector » by Honore de Balzac
- These meditations did not enfeeble my resolution, or slacken my pace.
- Extract from : « Arthur Mervyn » by Charles Brockden Brown
- It will, I fear, enfeeble the interest, which he might otherwise take in the result.
- Extract from : « Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries » by William Hogan
- Self-coddling and the fear of living strenuously, enfeeble character and result in half-successes.
- Extract from : « Teaching the Child Patriotism » by Kate Upson Clarke
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