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Enfeebled vs Failing - What's the difference?

enfeebled | failing | Related terms |

Enfeebled is a related term of failing.


As verbs the difference between enfeebled and failing

is that enfeebled is (enfeeble) while failing is .

As a noun failing is

weakness; defect.

As a preposition failing is

if the preferred or prior option is not possible.

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

    failing

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • weakness; defect
    • His worst failing is his temper.

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • if the preferred or prior option is not possible
    • A large proportion of the females employed in other firms are said to have signified their intention of going on strike, failing a settlement.