verbraucht (z. b. ein system, monarchie ...)

German - English

Definition of verbraucht (z. b. ein system, monarchie ...) in German English dictionary

effete

Decadent, self-indulgent; effeminate

Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent

Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out

Nature is not effœte, as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.

{a} barren, worn out with ge, very weak

exhausted, as having performed its functions

No longer capable of producing young, as an animal, or fruit, as the earth; hence, worn out with age; exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; no longer productive; barren; sterile

disapproval If you describe someone as effete, you are criticizing them for being weak and powerless. the charming but effete Russian gentry of the 1840s and 1850s

marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, infertile

{s} degenerate, decadent; worn out, exhausted

decadent, self-indulgent, effeminate