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enfeebled

enfeebled is the simple past and past participle of enfeeble.

Meaning of enfeeble

Verb

enfeeble (third-person singular simple present enfeebles, present participle enfeebling, simple past and past participle enfeebled)

  1. (transitive) To make feeble.
    • "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130
    Synonyms:
    weaken

Adjective

enfeebled (comparative more enfeebled, superlative most enfeebled)

  1. Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
    • So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 86
    • In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle.2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 Jun 2025

Forms of enfeebled

comparativemore enfeebled
superlativemost enfeebled

Words formed from enfeebled

Questions about enfeebled

What does enfeebled mean?
Enfeebled means weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
What is enfeebled the simple past and past participle of?
Enfeebled is the simple past and past participle of enfeeble.
What part of speech is enfeebled?
Enfeebled is an adjective.

Words near enfeebled in the dictionary

  1. enfasten
  2. enfastened
  3. enfastening
  4. enfastens
  5. enfeeble
  6. enfeebled
  7. enfeeblement
  8. enfeeblements
  9. enfeebler
  10. enfeeblers
  11. enfeebles

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