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Meanings of
enfeebling
in English
Causing debilitation.
weakening
enervating
debilitative
Related terms
debilitating
Synonyms
Examples for "
weakening
"
weakening
enervating
debilitative
Examples for "
weakening
"
1
Any
weakening
of consumer confidence could hit Linden Homes' market in particular.
2
And China is actually one possible
weakening
link in the BRIC strategy.
3
The results will be a centralisation of power and
weakening
of democracy.
4
The industry fears one of the best practices would include
weakening
encryption.
5
Growth rates across the developed world have been
weakening
for 50 years.
1
These are the results of the easy luxury of an
enervating
high-life.
2
The darkness enfolded her like the
enervating
caress of a sombre universe.
3
There is something
enervating
to a northern race in these subtropical climates.
4
Besides this, the talk of intervention had an
enervating
effecton the commandos.
5
It is
enervating
,
and makes one eye swell up and turn blue.
Usage of
enfeebling
in English
1
His mind was naturally feeble; and he had received an
enfeebling
education.
2
Proportional representation systems in Europe were derided as dangerous and
enfeebling
.
3
The plan proceeds expressly on the idea of
enfeebling
the regular executory power.
4
A weakened Fairtrade portends the
enfeebling
of the very idea of fair trade.
5
I hope that Mr. Lincoln will know how to resist these
enfeebling
influences.
6
But his vexatious captivity, and the
enfeebling
consequences of this wound, dulled his spirit.
7
Rheumatic complaints followed, permanently
enfeebling
a body weak from infancy.
8
These methods have the effect of
enfeebling
the gymnoti.
9
The education of a prince is not necessarily
enfeebling
.
10
He finds it genial and equable, at the same time that it is not
enfeebling
.
11
Ill health was
enfeebling
him, destroying his wonted activity.
12
And when art is merely sensuous, it is
enfeebling
and demoralizing rather than strengthening or elevating.
13
He must stamp himself upon the institution, or its
enfeebling
influence will be stamped upon him.
14
On my arrival in America, I found a fierce contest agitating, dividing and
enfeebling
the Irish-American population.
15
His years are sadly
enfeebling
him.
16
Patty's tears flowed faster at the first sound of sympathy in Waitstill's voice, for self-pity is very
enfeebling
.
Other examples for "enfeebling"
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enfeebling
enfeeble
Verb
Present
Frequent collocations
enfeeble consequences
enfeeble a body
enfeeble amendments
enfeeble education
enfeeble even
More collocations
Enfeebling
through the time