"enfeeble" meaning in English

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      "form": "enfeebles",
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      "form": "enfeebling",
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          "text": "1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,\n\"...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature.\""
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          "text": "In the face of enfeebled, self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.",
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        "To make feeble."
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        "(transitive) To make feeble."
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          "word": "weaken"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "heikentää"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "affaiblir"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "schwächen"
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          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "anbhainnigh"
        },
        {
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "díneartaigh"
        },
        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "whakaiwikore"
        },
        {
          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "feblen"
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          "code": "enm",
          "lang": "Middle English",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "enfeblen"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "oslabljátʹ",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
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          "word": "ослабля́ть"
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          "roman": "oslábitʹ",
          "sense": "make feeble",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "осла́бить"
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          "sense": "make feeble",
          "word": "lagaich"
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          "sense": "make feeble",
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      "form": "enfeebles",
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      "form": "enfeebling",
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        "(transitive) To make feeble."
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      "word": "weaken"
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      "word": "infeeble"
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      "code": "fi",
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      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "heikentää"
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      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "affaiblir"
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      "sense": "make feeble",
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      "code": "ga",
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      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "anbhainnigh"
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      "sense": "make feeble",
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      "sense": "make feeble",
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      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "feblen"
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      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "enfeblen"
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      "roman": "oslabljátʹ",
      "sense": "make feeble",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "ослабля́ть"
    },
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      "roman": "oslábitʹ",
      "sense": "make feeble",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "осла́бить"
    },
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      "lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
      "sense": "make feeble",
      "word": "lagaich"
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      "sense": "make feeble",
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  "word": "enfeeble"
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