Definitions for enfeeble

enfeeble en·fee·ble

Spelling: [en-fee-buh l]
IPA: /ɛnˈfi bəl/

Enfeeble is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in enfeeble (beeeefln).

Definitions for enfeeble

verb (used with object)

  1. to make feeble; weaken:

Origin of enfeeble

1300-50; Middle English enfeblen Old French enfeblir. See en-1, feeble

Examples for enfeeble

There is no money in the treasury, and so they enfeeble her instead of strengthening.

Every time we cut ourselves off from nutrition, we enfeeble them.

Usually they enfeeble the sympathies, and often overlie and smother them.

These meditations did not enfeeble my resolution, or slacken my pace.

There, no petty circle of society can fetter the energies or enfeeble the endeavors.

But in poverty there is also a tendency to intimidate, to enfeeble, to benumb.

It has isolated interests in order to subjugate them; it has sundered all to enfeeble all.

It will, I fear, enfeeble the interest, which he might otherwise take in the result.

Self-coddling and the fear of living strenuously, enfeeble character and result in half-successes.

Nothing could enfeeble that, it seemed heroic, and covered all other laches.

Word Value for enfeeble
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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