English-Thai Dictionary

enfeeble

VT ตัดกำลัง  ทำให้ อ่อนแอ  enervate exhaust weaken tad-kam-lang

 

enfeebled

ADJ อ่อนแอ  หมดแรง  effete infirm weakened on-ae

 

enfeeblement

N การ ทำให้ หมดกำลัง อ่อนเพลีย ลง 

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ENFEEBLE

v.t.[from feeble. ] To deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate; to enervate. Intemperance enfeebles the body, and induces premature infirmity. Excessive grief and melancholy enfeeble the mind. Long wars enfeeble a state.

 

ENFEEBLED

pp. Weakened; deprived of strength or vigor.

 

ENFEEBLEMENT

n.The act of weakening; enervation.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

ENFEEBLE

En *fee "ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enfeebled; p. pr. & vb. n.Enfeebling. ] Etym: [OF. enfeblir, enfeiblir; pref. en- (L. in ) + feble, F. faible, feeble. See Feeble. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

ENFEEBLEMENT

ENFEEBLEMENT En *fee "ble *ment, n.

 

Defn: The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.

 

ENFEEBLER

ENFEEBLER En *fee "bler, n.

 

Defn: One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

enfeeble

en fee ble |enˈfēbəl ɪnˈfibəl | ▶verb [ with obj. ] make weak or feeble: (as adj. enfeebled ) : trade unions are in an enfeebled state. DERIVATIVES en fee ble ment noun, en fee bler |-ˈfēblər |noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state ) + feble ‘feeble. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

enfeeble

en |fee ¦ble |ɪnˈfiːb (ə )l, ɛn- | ▶verb [ with obj. ] (often as adj. enfeebled ) make weak or feeble: trade unions are in an enfeebled state. DERIVATIVES enfeeblement noun ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French enfeblir, from en- (expressing a change of state ) + feble ‘feeble ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

enfeeble

enfeeble verb enfeebled from malnutrition: weaken, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, lay low; drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize. ANTONYMS strengthen.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

enfeeble

enfeeble verb the animal was enfeebled by lack of nutrition: weaken, make weak, make feeble, debilitate, incapacitate, indispose, prostrate, immobilize, lay low, disable, handicap, cripple, paralyse; drain, sap, exhaust, tire, fatigue, devitalize; informal knock out, do in, shatter; Brit. informal knacker; rare torpefy. ANTONYMS strengthen.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

enfeeble

en fee ble /ɪnfíːb (ə )l /動詞 他動詞 ｟かたく ｠…を弱らせる, 衰えさせる .

 

enfeebled

en f é e bled 形容詞 ｟かたく ｠弱った, 衰えた, 病弱な .