enfeeble

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈfiːbəl/

Definition of enfeeble

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

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."”
    “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.”
    “The Republican-appointed justices may yet enfeeble the executive branch’s ability to implement federal law.”

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Etymology

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

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