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enfeeble - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Verb

enfeeble (third-person singular simple present enfeebles, present participle enfeebling, simple past and past participle enfeebled)

  • (transitive) To make feeble.
    • ✤ “…the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature.”1
    • ✤ 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.2
    • ✤ The Republican-appointed justices may yet enfeeble the executive branch’s ability to implement federal law.3

Etymology

From Middle English enfeblen, from Old French enfeblir. Constructed like en- +‎ feeble.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ɪnˈfiːbəl/
  • Audio (Southern England): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -iːbəl

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

  1. 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130, ↩

  2. 2014 September 8, Michael White, “Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won’t believe”, in The Guardian: ↩

  3. 2022 January 13, Mark Joseph Stern, “The Supreme Court Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules”, in Slate: ↩

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