Enfeeble

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enfeeble \En*fee"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enfeebled}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Enfeebling}.] [OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L.
     in) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See {Feeble}.]
     To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the
     strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil.
                                                    --Prescott.
  
     Syn: To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  enfeeble
       v : make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" [syn: {debilitate},
            {drain}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "enfeeble":
     abate, afflict, attenuate, blunt, bugger, cramp, cripple, damp,
     dampen, de-energize, deaden, debilitate, derange, devitalize,
     disable, disenable, disorder, drain, dull, enervate, eviscerate,
     exhaust, extenuate, gruel, hamstring, hors de combat, hospitalize,
     inactivate, incapacitate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame,
     lay low, lay up, maim, mitigate, put, queer, queer the works,
     rattle, reduce, sabotage, sap, shake, shake up, sicken, soften up,
     spike, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen,
     unstring, weaken, wing, wreck