grow feeble

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As one of a handful of younger volunteers, he’s worried about the longevity of the program as he’s seen staff and volunteers grow feeble and unable to help deliver meals.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

Oh, how lamentable; how much to be regretted, that a hero, too, can grow feeble and old!

From Old Fritz and the New Era by Langley, Peter

It is for want of such strong meat as this that the spirit of an age tends to grow feeble.

From Among Famous Books by Kelman, John

Before he can grow feeble and die he immolates himself willingly on his own altar; and a younger and a stronger than he receives his spirit.

From The Great Taboo by Allen, Grant

The heart's action will also be observed to grow feeble in the course of severe cases, and its first sound indistinct, but neither of these changes is as marked in typhoid as in typhus fever.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various