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Word entry · 8 letters

enfeeble

Best crossword clue

"Make weak"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ɪnˈfiːbəl/Part of speech verbSorted beeeeflnStarts with EEnds with E1 clues
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Definitions

  1. Enfeeble means to make weak or weaker.

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • 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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