What's the difference between enfeeble and feeble?
Enfeeble
Definition:
(v. t.) To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prime minister, who was bounced into setting up the inquiry by Labour’s Ed Miliband and the Lib Dems’ Nick Clegg, now has a parliamentary majority and doesn’t need to worry about an enfeebled opposition.
(2) Occupy the SEC , a working group of Occupy Wall Street that includes former financial industry professionals and lawyers, sent a 325 page letter to the SEC outlining in detail how they felt the rule had been enfeebled.
(3) Had that argument been true, British businesses would be in leonine form by now, instead of their current chronic enfeeblement.
(4) It was considered as likely that the Delirium metabolicum represented an exogenous (organic) psychotic syndrome, and that the precipitation of the psychosis as well as its development into an enfeebled endstate was due to an organic brain lesion, while the catatoniformpsychomotor phenomena and the melancholic stupor were crystalisations of traits in the premorbid personality.
(5) Michael Heseltine, the former deputy prime minister, said May’s government was enfeebled and deeply divided.
(6) With the economy in its current enfeebled state, there are some in the City who think the total could hit £500bn before the Bank is done.
(7) Giving up the nuclear deterrent would be a “reckless gamble, that would enfeeble our allies and embolden our enemies”, she will say.
(8) Consultation over the Transfer of Undertakings Regulations (Tupe), which protect employees' terms and conditions of employment when a business is transferred from one owner to another, and the already enfeebled Public Sector Equality Duty are also under way, disguised as measures to cut red tape.
(9) Two patients presented with local disorders caused by the removal of veins from the upper limbs, including hypoesthesia of the forearm in one case and anesthesia associated with regressive muscle enfeeblement in the other.
(10) Lord Heseltine told the World at One: “So you have an enfeebled government.
(11) Everywhere you looked, the on-screen aristocrats were revealed as misguided or enfeebled; their power waning, their subjects in revolt.
(12) Few policymakers in the EU would be willing to do Cameron any favours, resulting in an enfeebled, lonelier Britain.
(13) Nor do I wish to swap one stereotype – the enfeebled older worker – for another, all serenity and wisdom.
(14) Even in its enfeebled state, Ireland clung on yesterday to its 12.5% corporation tax rate .
(15) That August of 1943, Monnet also decided that European states would be so enfeebled after the war that they must unite into a federation.
(16) Even allowing for the impact of Buchanan’s rhetoric, displayed in a succession of interviews, it was probably unhelpful that his laments about enfeebled men, in contrast to women’s status as “divine creatures”, coincided with repeated evidence that it is apt to be the other way around.
(17) The talk among policymakers in European capitals struggling to counter what they see as the slick Kremlin operations aimed at dividing and enfeebling Europe is of “Putin’s useful idiots”.
(18) The towers debate is really the most conspicuous symptom of a bigger issue, which is the enfeeblement of planning in London.
(19) However, any form of surgery may be contra-indicated in a patient enfeebled by prolonged immobilisation from involvement of multiple joints.
(20) With an enfeebled Labour party, whose leader, Jeremy Corbyn, could not even decide at the weekend whether or not to support a second independence vote, it was easy for Ms Sturgeon to warn that the Tories could be in power at Westminster for another 10, maybe even 15, years.
Feeble
Definition:
(superl.) Deficient in physical strength; weak; infirm; debilitated.
(superl.) Wanting force, vigor, or efficiency in action or expression; not full, loud, bright, strong, rapid, etc.; faint; as, a feeble color; feeble motion.
(v. t.) To make feble; to enfeeble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arsenal’s 10 men fall at the first hurdle against Dinamo Zagreb Read more This win, even against such feeble opponents, was celebrated, with the locals chorusing their manager’s name amid a wave of relief given so much of the team’s domestic campaign to date has been dismal.
(2) A Tory spokesman said: “This is feeble stuff from a party with no economic plan and a leader who just isn’t up it.
(3) The most important manometric abnormality was the feeble contractions of the pharyngeal musculature, more pronounced in patients with severe dysphagia (grade II).
(4) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
(5) In Catalonia the outspoken local politician is derided as a feeble sellout for opposing total independence; in the rest of Spain he is damned as a rabid separatist for wanting a bit more self-governance.
(6) These data indicate that Veillonella and Neisseria species possess a feeble ability to attach to cleaned teeth.
(7) If you want to compare effective regulation with weak regulation, compare the utterly feeble 2009 PCC report into phone hacking with the way the former independent television regulator, the ITC, reacted when, back in 1998, the Guardian published allegations about a programme on drug-running made by Carlton TV.
(8) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
(9) In treating vertebragenic headache, the segmental movement, the shortened postural muscles, the feeble phasic muscles and the wrong patterns of movement can be influenced by exercises.
(10) No proliferative activity is seen in the giant cells and these cells show only feeble phagocytic activity, tested by their ability to take up carbon particles.
(11) A muscle that has feeble tendon jerks may show a late component in the response to a tendon tap, with a latency similar to that of the long-latency stretch reflex.
(12) The administration of a convulsant dose of penicillin enhanced the transmission of monosynaptic reflexes in spinal cords in which reflex transmission was feeble before the drug treatment, but it had little effect in cords where monosynaptic reflexes were powerful to begin with.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson: ‘Saudi Arabia and Iran puppeteering in Middle East’ – video It’s true, the Saudis are propping up Yemen’s feeble half-government against a rebellion by Iranian-backed tribal militias.
(14) At the other extreme with an average allograft survival time of 91 days, C3H(H-1(a)) --> C3H.K(H-1(b)) showed a feeble production of plaque-forming cells with a peak response of 3.7 per 10 x 10(6) viable spleen cells at 9 days.
(15) But this much is clear: the old system of regulation was feeble.
(16) We have espoused unpopular causes, stood up for those too feeble to stand up for themselves, locked horns with the high and mighty so swollen with power that they have forgotten their roots, exposed corruption and the waste of your hard-earned tax rupees, and made sure that whatever the propaganda of the day, you were allowed to hear a contrary view.
(17) Of the several esophageal body motor abnormalities considered, only feeble peristalsis had significantly more positive Bernstein tests than did normal esophageal body motor functioning.
(18) Failures picked over include parliament's dithering over election laws that could result in the country going into a crucial presidential poll next year with no legal framework, the feeble sentences handed to the masterminds of the $900m Kabul Bank scandal and slow progress on asset recovery.
(19) For mild cooling (32 degrees C), the Q10 in 18-day-old embryos was about 1.5, while 12- and 16-day-old embryos had a Q10 value of about 2, indicating that a feeble homeothermic metabolic response to cooling appears in late prenatal embryos.
(20) "The justifications presented [for] the reduction are, to say the least, feeble.