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单词 enfeeblish
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enfeeblishv.

Forms: Middle English enfeblesch, enfeblish, Middle English enfeblyssh, 1500s–1600s enfeeblish.
Etymology: < Old French enfebliss-, lengthened stem of enfeblir : see enfeeble v.
Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To become or grow feeble.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > become weak [verb (intransitive)]
woke993
unstrengea1225
feeble?c1225
windlec1325
enfeeblish1382
weaken?1541
spindle1863
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxii. 14 Who of his neiȝbore eny thing of thes askith to borwe, and it were enfeblished or deed..he shal be compellid to ȝeeld.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2484 The Fraunche-mene enfeblesches, ne farly me thynkkys!
b. transitive. To make feeble, enfeeble.
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > weaken [verb (transitive)]
unstrengea1225
unstrength?c1225
feeblea1340
affeeblea1400
weakc1400
affeeblishc1450
enfeeblisha1492
pallc1500
weaken1569
effeeblish?1572
unstrengthen1598
labefy1620
unnerve1621
unmasculate1639
unbrace1711
sinka1715
infirmize1751
slacken1778
exhaust1860
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) iii. xliii. f. cccxxixv/1 He was thus enfeblysshed in his membres.
1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions i. x. f. 81v Manly strength, by immoderat heate, is resolued and enfeeblished.

Derivatives

enˈfeeblishing n. Obsolete
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1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 91 Vndergoing so many, so continuall mutations, and..enfeeblishings.
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