enfeebling

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Verb

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enfeebling

  1. present participle and gerund of enfeeble

Adjective

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enfeebling (comparative more enfeebling, superlative most enfeebling)

  1. Causing enfeeblement.
    • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 170:
      This persistence was having a very enfeebling effect on Cora. It gave her the illusion that Ted Farrell was a masterful dominant and that she was being exposed to him as an incompetent noodle.
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