feeble
Meanings
Adjective
- Deficient in physical strength
- Lacking force, vigor, or effectiveness in action or expression; faint.
Verb
- To make feeble; to enfeeble.
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Origin
- From Middle English feble, from Anglo-Norman feble ("weak, feeble") (compare French faible), from Latin flēbilis ("tearful, mournful, lamentable") by dissimilation, from fleō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₁-. foible.
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