Word Meanings - ENFEEBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENFEEBLE)
- Enervate
- Weaken
- enfeeble
- unnerve
- deteriorate
- debilitate
- relax
- unstring
- unhinge
- Impair
- Deteriorate
- injure
- reduce
- damage
- vitiate
- diminish
- lessen
- Paralyze
- Deaden
- benumb
- prostrate
- enervate
- Debilitate
- dilute
- impair
- paralyze
- attenuate
- sap
Related words: (words related to ENFEEBLE)
- DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - DILUTENESS
The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins. - UNSTRIPED
Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped. - RELAXANT
A medicine that relaxes; a laxative. - VITIATE
1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - PARALYZE
1. To affect or strike with paralysis or palsy. 2. Fig.: To unnerve; to destroy or impair the energy of; to render ineffective; as, the occurrence paralyzed the community; despondency paralyzed his efforts. - BENUMBED
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind. -- Be*numbed"ness, n. - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - UNHINGE
1. To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door. 2. To displace; to unfix by violence. Blackmore. 3. To render unstable or wavering; to unsettle; as, to unhinge one's mind or opinions; to unhinge the nerves. Why should I then unhinge my brains, - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - LESSENER
One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers . - IMPAIRMENT
The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden. - RELAXATIVE
Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n. - PROSTRATE
Trailing on the ground; procumbent. (more info) prostrate; pro before, forward + sternere to spread out, throw down. 1. Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate Elyot. - IMPAIRER
One who, or that which, impairs. - ENFEEBLER
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble. - UNNERVE
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm. Unequal match'd, . . . The unnerved father falls. Shak. - INJURE
To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: To hurt or wound, as the person; to impair soundness, as of health. To damage or lessen the value of, as goods or estate. To slander, - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - INDAMAGED
Not damaged. Milton. - ENDAMAGE
To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.