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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil.
--Prescott.
Syn: To weaken; debilitate; enervate.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
enfeeble
v : make weak; "Life in the camp drained him" [syn: {debilitate},
{drain}]
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