enfeeble

vt. 使衰弱

发音

其它 /ɪnˈfiːbəl/

词形变化

enfeebled enfeebles 三单 enfeebles enfeebling enfeebling 现在分词 enfeebled 过去式 enfeebled 过去分词

别名

infeeble

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make feeble.

    削弱

    及物

    1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130, "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."

词汇关系

动词

同义词 2

drain debilitate

上位词 1

weaken

下位词 3

waste emaciate macerate

词源

From Middle English enfeblen, from Old French enfeblir. Constructed like en- + feeble.

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