Enfeeble

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːbÉ™l

Origin

From Old French enfeblir. Constructed like - + feeble.

Full definition of enfeeble

Verb

1. (transitive) To make feeble.
• 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,"...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."

Synonyms

• weaken