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

In the impassioned individual, inordinate love or hate may enfeeble thought; deep and persistent thought may dwarf the affections.

From Body, Parentage and Character in History Notes on the Tudor Period by Jordan, Furneaux