Enfeebling - English meaning

verb

Cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally.

Usage examples:

Developing countries are crippled by their debts

noun

A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.

Usage examples:

An emotional cripple

verb

Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

verb

Make (someone) very weak and infirm.

Usage examples:

He was severely debilitated by a stomach upset

verb

To make someone or something physically weak

Usage examples:

Chemotherapy exhausted and debilitated him.

verb

Deprive of strength and vigour.

Usage examples:

Technological progress has given enormous power to humanity, but at the cost of devitalizing the sp…

verb

(of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities.

Usage examples:

It's an injury that could disable somebody for life

verb

To make something or someone unable to act in the correct or usual way

Usage examples:

Thieves disabled the museum’s alarm system.

verb

To turn off a part of a computer system, or stop it from working in the normal way

Usage examples:

To disable a program or device, right-click its listing under the appropriate category and choose '…

verb

Cause the water or other liquid in (something) to run out, leaving it empty or dry.

Usage examples:

We drained the swimming pool

noun

A channel or pipe carrying off surplus liquid, especially rainwater or liquid waste.

Usage examples:

The room's toilet pipes and shower drains carry this waste to a holding tank.

verb

Emptying something by allowing liquid to run out of it

verb

Make (someone) feel very tired.

Usage examples:

Her day out had exhausted her

noun

Waste gases or air expelled from an engine, turbine, or other machine in the course of its operation.

Usage examples:

Buses spewing out black clouds of exhaust

verb

To make a person or an animal extremely tired

Usage examples:

The long hike up the mountain exhausted us all., after a whole day with the kids, her patience was …

noun

Extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion or illness.

Usage examples:

He was nearly dead with fatigue

verb

Cause (someone) to feel exhausted.

Usage examples:

They were fatigued by their journey

noun

The condition of being extremely tired

Usage examples:

The doctor said he was suffering from fatigue and work-related stress.

noun

A circumstance that makes progress or success difficult.

Usage examples:

Not being able to drive was something of a handicap

verb

Act as an impediment to.

Usage examples:

Lack of funding has handicapped the development of research

noun

A physical or mental condition that makes ordinary activities more difficult than they are for other people

Usage examples:

His loss of hearing was a severe handicap., their lack of knowledge of computer programming was not…

verb

Prevent (something or someone) from moving or operating as normal.

Usage examples:

The car had been immobilized by a wheel clamp

verb

To prevent a company, country, or economy from using money or other assets

Usage examples:

Underdeveloped financial markets limit the availability of credit, immobilizing large amounts of ca…

verb

Prevent from functioning in a normal way.

Usage examples:

He was incapacitated by a heart attack

verb

To remove someone’s ability to do something

Usage examples:

The accident incapacitated me for seven months., an incapacitating illness, the novel tells the sto…

verb

Make (someone) unfit for or unable to do something.

Usage examples:

Not to get one's sleep indisposes one for the whole day

verb

Cause (a person or part of the body) to become partly or wholly incapable of movement.

Usage examples:

Mrs burrows had been paralysed by a stroke

verb

To cause a person, group, or organization to stop working

Usage examples:

The fuel protesters have threatened to try to paralyse the country again on november 13., the compa…

adjective

Lying stretched out on the ground with one's face downwards.

Usage examples:

There was a man praying before an idol, lying prostrate

verb

Throw oneself flat on the ground so as to be lying face downwards, especially in reverence or submission.

Usage examples:

She prostrated herself on the bare floor of the church

adjective

Lying flat with the face down

Usage examples:

She lay there prostrate, exhausted after a long day's work.

noun

The fluid which circulates in the vascular system of a plant, consisting chiefly of water with dissolved sugars and mineral salts.

Usage examples:

Create a living smorgasbord that includes plants with berries, foliage, fruit, nectar, nuts, pollen…

verb

Gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power).

Usage examples:

Our energy is being sapped by bureaucrats and politicians

verb

Dig a sap or saps.

Usage examples:

Having sapped up to the glacis of the city ramparts, versaillais troops entered the city

verb

Break or cause to break suddenly and violently into pieces.

Usage examples:

Bullets riddled the bar top, glasses shattered, bottles exploded

verb

Feel or cause to feel in need of rest or sleep.

Usage examples:

Soon the ascent grew steeper and he began to tire

noun

Us spelling of tyre.

noun

A rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed round a wheel to form a soft contact with the road.

verb

Make or become weaker in power, resolve, or physical strength.

Usage examples:

Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks

verb

To make or become weak or weaker

Usage examples:

[ i ] the country’s economy continues to weaken., [ t ] long exposure to vibration can weaken aircr…

verb

To become or make something or someone become less powerful, successful, effective, etc.

Usage examples:

A series of scandals weakened investor confidence., the plan has divided the country and weakened t…