enfeeble

Verb

Meaning

To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

debilitate drain weaken enervate sap cripple reduce break destroy waste exhaust undermine fatigue diminish hinder
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Antonyms

harden gladden quicken help foster build
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Hypernyms

weaken

Hyponyms

waste macerate emaciate

Derivatives

enfeebled enfeebling

Examples

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe. Anne Brontë

Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance. P. J. O'Rourke

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmanent by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. Edgar Allan Poe

Life in the camp drained him Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

enfants terrible enfasten enfect enfeebled enfeebled man enfeeblement