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单词 enfeebling
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enfeeblingn.

Etymology: < enfeeble v. + -ing suffix1.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: enˈfeebling.
The action of enfeeble v.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > weakening or decline in health > making weak
enfeebling1503
debilitating1539
unstringing1824
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 4 Preamb., The great hurte and enfebelyng of this Realme.
1531–2 Act 23 Hen. VIII c. 16 A great enfeblyng of the kinges saide subiectes.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 567 Those Parts..which Nature hath left liable..to great enfeeblings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

enfeeblingadj.

/ɛnˈfiːblɪŋ/
Etymology: < enfeeble v. + -ing suffix2.
That enfeebles.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > [adjective]
weakeninga1586
enfeebling1598
emasculating1741
strength-sapping1859
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > causing weak style
enfeebling1839
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F4v Infeebling ryot.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 216 Passion..does in a trice By th' ear and eie admit infeebling vice.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe II. v. 328 The enfeebling expletives, do and did.
1887 Spectator 1 Oct. 1300 England survives all things, even..her own enfeebling tolerances.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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