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enfeebled

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verb

past tense of enfeeble

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of enfeebled
Adjective
During a hospital stay, Roy’s enfeebled mother fixates on the caste and religious affiliations of the doctors treating her—the sort of thing that will be familiar to anyone who has cringed at a diminished elder’s unfiltered prejudices. Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enfeebled
Adjective
  • The Royals made a lot of weak contact, which resulted in a mix of groundouts.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Last week, a weaker-than-expected jobs report added to expectations of an imminent rate cut by the central bank.
    Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Childhood illnesses had severely weakened her own heart.
    Ruchi Kumar, NPR, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Since then, the legal safeguards against such encounters have weakened.
    Sydney Barragan, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to the much-beloved Mare of Easttown switches focus from steely women to feeble men.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The feeble report all but confirms a Fed interest rate cut later this month and raises at least the possibility of a half point – rather than a typical quarter point - reduction, Saunders said.
    Paul Davidson, USA Today, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • What’s more, a lot of Americans still have mortgage rates that are low enough to make the idea of a move daunting, and affordability overall hasn’t improved much even as the economy has softened.
    Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Materials are interesting in that a low looks to have been established, while Capital Equipment has softened somewhat recently.
    Randy Watts, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Talking to Bill Nighy about his star turn as a frail and at times broken novelist in & Sons is rather hampered by the British actor not having seen director Pablo Trapero’s father-and-son drama on a screen of any size ahead of its world premiere on Sunday at the Toronto Film Festival.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Continue reading … MOUNTING AILMENTS – Biden undergoes surgery for skin cancer as frail appearance fuels new questions.
    , FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Two women – his mom Elsie Lucero who cared tirelessly for his late-brother Eddie, who was physically and mentally disabled, and his late sister Margie who died of cancer in 2018 and adored her daughter Sarah who has Angelman Syndrome, an extreme form of Down Syndrome.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Access to Work helps employers hire disabled people 100% of employers said their disabled staff would struggle to do their jobs without it.
    Nancy Doyle, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Enfeebled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enfeebled. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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