Definition of enfeeble in English:

enfeeble

verb ɪnˈfiːb(ə)lɛnˈfiːb(ə)l

[with object]often as adjective enfeebled

Make weak or feeble.
使衰弱，使无力
trade unions are in an enfeebled state
工会处于软弱无力的状态。
Example sentencesExamples
- The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons.
- Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
- The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
- He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health.
- Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
- On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’.
- One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work.
- Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
- It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
- The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled.
- When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia.
- My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out.
- I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
- At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him.
- The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
- He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies.
- A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely.
- And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
- He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old.
Synonyms
weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse
drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize
informal knock out, do in, shatter
British informal knacker
rare torpefy

Derivatives

enfeeblement

noun ɪnˈfiːb(ə)lm(ə)ntɛnˈfiːb(ə)lm(ə)nt

They are better suited to the decimation and enfeeblement of vulnerable civilians than to destroying promptly an enemy's military units.
Example sentencesExamples
- Once again, though with sympathy and concern this time, he was writing of a grave ailment: the pandemic enfeeblement in Australia's institutions of higher learning.
- What worries me is that there will be enfeeblement, helplessness, that I will go on for years unable to sense my decline, my lunacy, and oblivious to all my indignities.
- Driven by ever accelerating information technology and the greed of the affluent, this process is leading inexorably to an enfeeblement of the weak and alienation of the poor.
- But his enfeeblement was more than just a matter of poor health.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble 'feeble'.

Rhymes

feeble, Keble

Definition of enfeeble in US English:

enfeeble

verb

[with object]

Make weak or feeble.
使衰弱，使无力
trade unions are in an enfeebled state
工会处于软弱无力的状态。
Example sentencesExamples
- A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely.
- He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health.
- One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work.
- He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies.
- The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled.
- The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons.
- And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name.
- At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him.
- Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland.
- The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions.
- He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old.
- I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context.
- On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’.
- My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out.
- When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia.
- The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure.
- Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped.
- Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture.
- It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong.
- His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today.
Synonyms
weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse

Origin

Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble ‘feeble’.

词汇	enfeeble
释义	Definition of enfeeble in English: enfeeble verb ɪnˈfiːb(ə)lɛnˈfiːb(ə)l [with object]often as adjective enfeebled Make weak or feeble. 使衰弱，使无力 trade unions are in an enfeebled state 工会处于软弱无力的状态。 Example sentencesExamples The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture. The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions. He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health. Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland. On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’. One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work. Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped. It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong. The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled. When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia. My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out. I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context. At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him. The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure. He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies. A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely. And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name. His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today. He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old. Synonyms weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize informal knock out, do in, shatter British informal knacker rare torpefy Derivatives enfeeblement noun ɪnˈfiːb(ə)lm(ə)ntɛnˈfiːb(ə)lm(ə)nt They are better suited to the decimation and enfeeblement of vulnerable civilians than to destroying promptly an enemy's military units. Example sentencesExamples Once again, though with sympathy and concern this time, he was writing of a grave ailment: the pandemic enfeeblement in Australia's institutions of higher learning. What worries me is that there will be enfeeblement, helplessness, that I will go on for years unable to sense my decline, my lunacy, and oblivious to all my indignities. Driven by ever accelerating information technology and the greed of the affluent, this process is leading inexorably to an enfeeblement of the weak and alienation of the poor. But his enfeeblement was more than just a matter of poor health. Origin Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble 'feeble'. Rhymes feeble, Keble Definition of enfeeble in US English: enfeeble verb [with object] Make weak or feeble. 使衰弱，使无力 trade unions are in an enfeebled state 工会处于软弱无力的状态。 Example sentencesExamples A plate of aluminium about fifteen millimetres thick, though it enfeebled the action seriously, did not cause the fluorescence to disappear entirely. He no doubt walks little old ladies across the street and feeds enfeebled kittens by hand to nurse them back to health. One out of three got worse - it actually enfeebled their work. He weeps, enfeebled by the death of his most loving daughter - he refuses to believe she is gone, even as he himself dies. The institutions that are supposed to be providing these checks and balances seem to be temporarily enfeebled. The existing opposition parties are enfeebled - the biggest of them is the Communist Party, a husk of its former self and no friend to capitalist tycoons. And of course, once he's too enfeebled to make it to the polls he'll have lots of folks willing to vote in his name. At that moment she knew that his age had enfeebled him. Despite this, we are gradually unpicking the fabric of a once prosperous nation and turning it into a starved and enfeebled wasteland. The mind or intellect seems to be enfeebled by sentiment today as your head and heart tug you in different directions. He was a weak, completely enfeebled old man, between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and fifty years old. I am reminded of his awareness of how enfeebled modern literature can seem in an academic context. On May 1 he wrote, ‘the sudden north wind has enfeebled me sadly’. My elderly brain is too enfeebled to work it out. When you are old and enfeebled your muscles don't work very well, you can't cough and you are at risk of pneumonia. The old man is too enfeebled to make the journey, and sends his young counterpart on the voyage to retrieve the treasure. Under constant attack and enfeebled by the bitterly cold weather, the army and its followers were gradually destroyed in the passes leading to India and only a handful escaped. Artists dominated by reason lose all feeling, powerful instinct is enfeebled, inspiration becomes impoverished and the heart lacks its rapture. It enfeebled us so much that even freedom from European colonisation did not make us independent and strong. His success enfeebled the national democratic process, plunging Cambodia back into turmoil that continues to plague it today. Synonyms weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse Origin Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble ‘feeble’.
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