ENFEEBLE Copy link • ENFEEBLEinfirmare (general term for weakening): enervare (take out the sinews; also IMPROP., enervare animos, etc. Livy uses a velut; velut enervata civitas): debilitare (weaken): attenuare: minuere: comminuere: imminuere (IMPROP., to weaken, to lessen): frangere (to break anything down, take away all its strength and spirit, IMPROP.): labefactare (to lessen the authority of anything; e.g., legem): diluere (to take away the strength of a proof or charge; e.g., confirmationem adversarii): atterere (PROP., to rub off; to weaken an enemy’s forces, resources, etc.). To enfeeble the mind, animum debilitare, comminuere. ENFEEBLED, by the participle of the verbs given above; also effetus (by over-bearing; then, also, generally: e.g., corpus): enectus (by hunger, suffering of body, etc.): exhaustus (enfeeble in its resources; of a state): attritus (by loss of men, money, etc.; of a state): Vid: WEAKEN.