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Enfeebled vs Enervated - What's the difference?

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Enfeebled is a related term of enervated.


As verbs the difference between enfeebled and enervated

is that enfeebled is (enfeeble) while enervated is (enervate).

As an adjective enervated is

weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.

enfeebled

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enfeeble)

    • 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

    enervated

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Weakened, debilitated or deprived of strength or vitality.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (enervate)

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