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 →

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 →
The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force. tree →

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 →

Note

nothing for maths

On Mova

Trees and pragmatics of «enfeeble» in the school dictionary: 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: every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
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