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
Therefore a complete abolition of our symbols can meet with assent as little as an enfeeblement of them can be desired.
From Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts by Smith Ely Jelliffe
There has been a great extension of what we call education in the past hundred years, but while we have spread education widely, there has been a sort of shrinkage and enfeeblement of its aims.
From The Salvaging Of Civilisation by H. G.
Stage of extreme enfeeblement with diminution and final loss of power.
From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Thomas Jefferson Ritter
