enfeebled

English

Verb

enfeebled

  1. simple past and past participle of enfeeble

Adjective

enfeebled (comparative more enfeebled, superlative most enfeebled)

  1. Weakened; reduced to a powerless state.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 86:
      So enfeebled was resolution in him that he could only palter at a fatuous picture of himself carrying Podson bodily over the lagoon and dumping him on the sand dunes.
    • 2025 June 25, Ismail Muhammad, “Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You’re a Moron?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 25 June 2025:
      In commercial after commercial, humans are oblivious, enfeebled, barely functioning idiots beset by more tasks, stimuli and demands on their time than anyone could reasonably handle.

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