Definition of "enfeebling"

enfeebling

verb
1. present participle and gerund of enfeeble
adjective
comparative more enfeebling, superlative most enfeebling
1. Causing enfeeblement.
  Quotations
  This persistence was having a very enfeebling effect on Cora. It gave her the illusion that Ted Farrell was a masterful dominant and that she was being exposed to him as an incompetent noodle.
  1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 170