enfeeble

Example Sentences

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Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

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.”

From New York Times • Oct. 3, 2022

Their goal is to blunt and enfeeble criticism and distract from its truthfulness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 2022

It will forever be the least dangerous branch, but that is no reason to enfeeble it further.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018

Distance would enfeeble, and perhaps ultimately break, the spell; and even were it not broken, a partition-wall of defence would be erected.

From Fickle Fortune by Elisabeth Burstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)