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enfeeble

verb as in make very weak

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In a letter to Dr. Gabadadze and other deans, they wrote that they worried about setting “a precedent, completely lacking in due process, that could undermine faculty freedoms and correspondingly enfeeble proven pedagogic practices.”

The paradox is that trauma’s lingering impacts can enfeeble human connection, weakening even the strongest of social bonds.

How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind.

But the line has shifted in recent weeks with the administration shipping ever more sophisticated military equipment and expressing more openly its ambitions not just to help the Ukrainians but to defeat and even enfeeble Russia.

The Republican-appointed justices may yet enfeeble the executive branch’s ability to implement federal law.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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