Feebling

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A feeble person.

    "Our sergeant did not, therefore, as might have been expected, retain the hale men to fight and send on the feeblings, but just the reverse; and the only disabled soldiers pushed forward were the few in the waggons […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of feeble form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"Our sergeant did not, therefore, as might have been expected, retain the hale men to fight and send on the feeblings, but just the reverse; and the only disabled soldiers pushed forward were the few in the waggons […]"

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