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# enfeeble

verb (enfeeble, enfeebles, enfeebled, enfeebling)

«enfeeble» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To enfeeble someone is to make them weak, so they lose their strength. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enfeeble/#m1)

### In the lessons

to make someone or something weak, as age or sickness does in a tale

### Examples

- Age had enfeebled the old lion. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enfeeble/#x1)
- The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enfeeble/#x2)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

It refers to Amalek, who attacked the weak at the back of the Israelites after they left Egypt.

**Interpretation.** Tradition remembers Amalek as the model of cruelty and commands "remember what Amalek did." This is read aloud every year on Shabbat Zachor.

### Examples

- how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. (Torah DEU.25.18, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «enfeeble» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/enfeeble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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- [Trees and pragmatics of «enfeeble» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«enfeeble» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/enfeeble.html) on Mova free.