Dictionary entry

Enfeeble

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.