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
At the same time the whole spectrum suffers enfeeblement; water attacks all its rays, but with different degrees of energy.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Dementia, de-men′shi-a, n. general mental enfeeblement, with loss of memory, reason, feeling, and will: often the consequence of acute mania.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Care of Patients with Paresis.—This is a form of insanity characterized by progressive dementia and increasing bodily enfeeblement and paralysis.
From How to Care for the Insane A Manual for Nurses by William D. Granger
