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enfeebled adjective [ ɪnˈfiːb(ə)ld ]

• made weak or feeble.
• "trade unions are in an enfeebled state"

enfeeble verb

• make weak or feeble.
• "sickness had enfeebled me"
Similar: weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse, drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize, knock out, do in, shatter, knacker, torpefy,
Opposite: strengthen,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + feble ‘feeble’.


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