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
At the same time the whole spectrum suffers enfeeblement; water attacks all its rays, but with different degrees of energy.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
According to the point of view of the critic these peculiarities themselves will be counted means of invigoration or of enfeeblement.
From The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education by Alice Freeman Palmer
Care of Patients with Paresis.—This is a form of insanity characterized by progressive dementia and increasing bodily enfeeblement and paralysis.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger
