enfeeble
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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
The paradox is that trauma’s lingering impacts can enfeeble human connection, weakening even the strongest of social bonds.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2022
How, in other words, fear and neglect, rather than the waywardness Vogel rails against, are what really enfeeble the mind.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022
Abood held fast for several decades in the face of a well-funded movement to reverse the decision and enfeeble public sector unions.
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2017
"Do you not think," I replied, "that the temptation being ever present, the struggle in the soul must in time exhaust and enfeeble the moral powers, producing disastrous consequences?"
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
He was not of those whose Christian liberality slackens and enfeebles devotion to their own communion.
From Charles Lewis Cocke Founder of Hollins College by Smith, William Robert Lee
It impairs the functions of the brain, clouds the understanding, and enfeebles the memory.”—Dr.
From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert
Or it is the heart, which hastens or slackens its beats, or makes them irregular, or enfeebles, or augments them.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
The restricted waist will not admit of a full and deep inspiration and so essential is this to health, that abuse in this respect soon enfeebles and destroys the functions of the system.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Cutter, Calvin
She has traveled to Kyiv aiming to set up partnerships between enfeebled German automobile and machine makers—industries that currently shed 15,000 specialist jobs a month—and Ukrainian arms companies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
She engenders compassion as Elisabeth grapples with her aging body, and a scene where she is enfeebled and struggles to get out of a chair is both achingly painful and achingly funny.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024
Added to this, Congress, which governed India for decades, looks enfeebled and in decline.
From BBC ● Apr. 22, 2024
The empire carried on in an enfeebled state, but over the ensuing decades, Chang’an ceded much military and civil authority to provincial warlords.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
One historian called Chernenko "an enfeebled geriatric so zombie-like as to be beyond assessing intelligence reports, alarming or not."
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
His balding head’s scraggly hair—in contrast to the wigs worn by just about every Frenchman at the time, no matter the social class—is both ennobling and a bit enfeebling, like an aging but distinguished mane.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
They fear that the enfeebling of the judiciary will compromise the rule of law and make the economy unattractive for investment.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
It’s an image that evokes an enfeebling combination of envy and rage, as it becomes increasingly clear that the botters are perpetually one step ahead of our mere keyboards and mouses.
From The Verge ● May 25, 2022
That is, what if books by Coelho, Mitch Albom and others don’t satisfy a market so much as create it, enfeebling their readers while purporting to strengthen them with revelations?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2020
These suggestions are urgently needed in France, where children are subjected to a far more rigid and enfeebling method than in America.
From Buchanan's Journal of Man, October 1887 Volume 1, Number 9 by Buchanan, Joseph R. (Joseph Rodes)
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