imbecilitate

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English

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Verb

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imbecilitate (third-person singular simple present imbecilitates, present participle imbecilitating, simple past and past participle imbecilitated)

  1. (transitive) To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
    • 1653, Arthur Wilson, The History of Great Britain, being the Life and Reign of King James I:
      The man, being skilful in natural magick, did use all the artifices his subtilty could devise to imbecilitate the earl.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French imbécilité. Equivalent to imbecil +‎ -itate.

Noun

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imbecilitate f (plural imbecilități)

  1. silliness

Declension

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