enfeebling

1. 1.

   causing debilitation

   Synonymsdebilitativeenervatingweakening

   Similardebilitating

Questions about enfeebling

What does enfeebling mean?

enfeebling means "causing debilitation".

How many syllables are in enfeebling?

enfeebling has 3 syllables: en-fee-bling. The stress falls on "en".

What is another word for enfeebling?

Close synonyms include debilitative, enervating, weakening. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enfeebling a common word?

enfeebling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.