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

Dwindle, dwin′dl, v.i. to grow less: to waste away: to grow feeble: to become degenerate.—v.t. to lessen.—n. decline.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

The Jamesons are still with us every summer—even Grandma Cobb, who does not seem to grow feeble at all.

From The Jamesons by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

About a year ago he began to grow feeble and seldom went to the factory, which Sanford managed for him.

From The Dream Doctor by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)

Infernal imagination goes faint; its wildest similes grow feeble and banal before such a consummation of hell.

From The Last Shot by Palmer, Frederick