enfeeble
Example Sentences
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Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The paradox is that trauma’s lingering impacts can enfeeble human connection, weakening even the strongest of social bonds.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2022
It will forever be the least dangerous branch, but that is no reason to enfeeble it further.
From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018
He had no fear that the extension of our limits would enfeeble us.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various
Vocabulary lists containing enfeeble
President Obama's Farewell Address
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