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 →

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 →
• Age had enfeebled the old lion. tree →
• The lion, enfeebled by age, could no longer hunt by force. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «enfeeble» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.