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enfeebled en · ADJ

Meanings

  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

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more enfeebled Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most enfeebled Degree=Sup lexicographic

Deriveds

unenfeebled

enfeebled en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of enfeeble
    form of enfeeble