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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːbəl

Transitive verb

to enfeeble (enfeebling, enfeebled, enfeebled)

1. 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

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