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

Indeed, the past quarter-century has witnessed enfeeblement and decline�the end of an empire, the shrinking value of the pound sterling, near stagnation of a formerly innovative economy.

From Time Magazine Archive

“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

It needs a powerfully dispersive spectroscope to show line-displacements of the minute order in question; and powerful dispersion involves a strictly proportionate enfeeblement of light.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

A temporary illness, he called it, the natural enfeeblement following upon a prolonged bout with Yucatan fever.

From The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack