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Enfeebler vs Enfeeble - What's the difference?

enfeebler | enfeeble |

As a noun enfeebler

is one who, or that which, enfeebles or weakens.

As a verb enfeeble is

to make feeble.

enfeebler

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who, or that which, enfeebles or weakens.
    • (Webster 1913)

    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