Antonyms for enfeeble

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

Example sentences :

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

Synonyms for enfeeble

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