enfeeble

Example Sentences

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Perizad’s story, buoyed by Abdullina’s weary, yet searching gaze, achieves an emotional tenor that the preceding vignettes lack, enfeebled as they are by dialogue — and text messages — that announce precisely the issues at stake.

From New York Times

The Bosnian Serb threat to paralyse parliament and the presidency would carry more weight if those institutions were not already enfeebled by ethnic squabbling.

From BBC

The insurgents are sewing up the Afghan countryside, cutting off the road network, and squeezing the increasingly enfeebled central government.

From New York Times

He was apparently disappointed to learn that the "devastating retribution" he hoped for was not possible in a democracy, even an enfeebled one:

From Salon

The House was expected to give final congressional approval Wednesday to the package, which aims to fulfill Democrats’ campaign promises to beat the pandemic and revive the enfeebled economy.

From Seattle Times