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# enfeeble

«enfeeble» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **to make them weak, so they lose their strength** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (enfeeble, enfeebles, enfeebled, enfeebling)

### meaning for a pupil

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

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and 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. In the primary lessons: to make someone or something weak, as age or sickness does in a tale

### 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/#x1)
- Age had enfeebled the old lion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/#x2)
- The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «enfeeble» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/E/enfeeble/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.