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  • adjective same as debilitated, 2.

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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of enfeeble.

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Examples

  • Despite ending his term enfeebled, he often tops popularity polls, as the French look back warmly on a man who stood against the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

    The Economist: Correspondent's diary 2009

  • How should he, while his mind was yet enfeebled from the cruel disappointments he had experienced on his arrival in England, be able to bear the tears of his mother, the sorrow of his two sisters? how console them for the loss they had sustained? how strengthen by his example their more tender minds, to endure what he feared the dissolute folly of his brother might yet bring upon them; while his own heart recoiled from the idea of meeting that brother, and was bleeding with the dreadful wounds inflicted by the uncertainty of what was become of Monimia; which, had he not entertained some hopes of hearing of her from his sister Selina, would have driven him to distraction!

    The Old Manor House 1793

  • Also, why is Grace considered "enfeebled" because her life becomes focused on Sam (which seems natural in any new relationship), and Sam is not?

    Today's Book Review 2009

  • In Europe, we can see how the welfare state puts in place a system of incentives that creates a new kind of enfeebled man, but that's not exactly correct.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Dr. Sanity 2009

  • The bill greatly modified and "enfeebled" as its original friends regarded it, finally passed on the day before the close of the first session.

    History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States William Horatio Barnes

  • In Europe, we can see how the welfare state puts in place a system of incentives that creates a new kind of enfeebled man, but that's not exactly correct.

    The Constitution Club 2009

  • DELHI: The BJP was "enfeebled" by so much "disarray" at the top never before witnessed in its

    WN.com - Articles related to Bharti to keep busy despite MTN failure: analysts 2009

  • DELHI: The BJP was "enfeebled" by so much "disarray" at the top never before witnessed in its

    WN.com - Articles related to Bharti to keep busy despite MTN failure: analysts 2009

  • New Delhi: The BJP is "enfeebled" by so much "disarray" at the top never before witnessed in its history and its prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani himself "failed" to assert his leadership at "crucial points," says a key party strategist while analysing its poll debacle.

    The Hindu - Front Page 2009

  • DELHI: The BJP was "enfeebled" by so much "disarray" at the top never before witnessed in its

    WN.com - Articles related to Report: Thousands of Indian women die needlessly in maternal deaths 2009

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