Enfeeble is a related term of debase.
In lang=en terms the difference between enfeeble and debase
is that
enfeeble is to make feeble while
debase is to lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
As verbs the difference between enfeeble and debase
is that
enfeeble is to make feeble while
debase is to lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
enfeeble English
Verb
( enfeebl)
To make feeble.
* 2014 , Michael White, " Roll up, roll up! The Amazing Salmond will show a Scotland you won't believe ", The Guardian , 8 September 2014:
- In the face of enfeebled , self-harming opposition on both sides of the border (and a miserable economic recession on both sides too) he has performed brilliantly.
* 1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets , J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 130,
- "...the gout, with which he had long been tormented, prevailed over the enfeebled powers of nature."
Synonyms
* weaken
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debase English
Verb
(debas)
To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
(archaic) To lower in position or rank.[Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.]
To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.
Synonyms
* adulterate, degrade, demean
Derived terms
* debased
* debasedness
* debasement
* debaser
* undebased
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