The process or result of making someone or something weak or less powerful.
From en- (prefix meaning 'to cause to be') + feeble (from Old French feble, meaning weak). The -ment suffix creates a noun. Evolved in English to describe the act or state of weakening.
This word reveals how English loves to bundle actions into nouns—'enfeeblement' transforms a process into a thing, making it easier to talk about abstract concepts like how stress causes physical weakness or how empires decline.
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