enfeeblement
Example Sentences
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“Overstretch — the enfeeblement that comes with confusing ends and means — allows enemies to apply leverage: small maneuvers that have big consequences.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2018
“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
A temporary illness, he called it, the natural enfeeblement following upon a prolonged bout with Yucatan fever.
From The Turtles of Tasman by Jack London
The neglect to which the great mass of working-men’s children are condemned leaves ineradicable traces and brings the enfeeblement of the whole race of workers with it.
From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Florence Kelley
The chief danger of status is that of suppressing personal development, and so of causing social enfeeblement, rigidity, and ultimate decay.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
