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
With the enfeeblement of Congress through the growing unimportance of the taxing power, its great function, came the tendency to magnify the Executive.
From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace) Gilbert
The triumphs left enfeeblement; the defeat acted as a strong tonic which is still working beneficently to-day.
From The Task of Social Hygiene by Havelock Ellis
Armpit Swelling.—Often this comes as the result of a chill, or of enfeeblement of the system from various causes.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
